Wittgenstein's remarks on colour : a commentary and interpretation /

The book is a first detailed discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour, a compilation of writings on the subject from the last fifteen months of his life. The origin and significance of the remarks are explained along with a remark-by-remark guide to what Wittgenstein says. In addit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lugg, Andrew, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press, 2021.
Colección:Anthem studies in Wittgenstein.
Temas:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, > 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, > 1889-1951
Color (Philosophy)
Couleur (Philosophie)
colors (hues or tints)
symbolic color.
color (perceived attribute)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. Wittgenstein On Colour, 1916-1949
  • 'Scientific questions may interest me, but they never really grip me'
  • 'For it is excluded by the logical structure of colour'
  • 'The colour octahedron is grammar'
  • 'Exactly so. ... We are calculating with these colour terms'
  • 'A work in logic'
  • Chapter Two. Remarks On Colour, Part II
  • 'I read a great deal in Goethe's "Farbenlehre"'
  • 'Is that the basis of the proposition that there can be no clear transparent white?'
  • 'Does that define the concepts more closely?'
  • 'There is merely an inability to bring the concepts into some kind of order'
  • 'Phenomenological analysis ... is analysis of concepts'
  • Chapter Three. Remarks On Colour, III.1-42
  • 'Here we have a sort of mathematics of colour'
  • 'What is the importance of the concept of saturated colour?'
  • 'The wrong picture confuses, the right picture helps'
  • 'What ... importance does the question of the number of pure colours have?'
  • 'Lack of clarity in philosophy is tormenting'
  • Chapter Four Remarks On Colour, III.43-95
  • 'And that is logic'
  • 'It is not at all clear a priori which are the simple colour concepts'
  • 'There is no such thing as the pure colour concept'
  • 'Can't we imagine people having a [different] geometry of colours?'
  • 'Mayn't that open our eyes to the nature of those differentiations among colours?'
  • Chapter Five. Remarks On Colour, III.96-130
  • 'The logic of the concept of colour is just much more complicated'
  • 'The person who cannot play this game does not have this concept'
  • 'Was that all nonsense?'
  • 'There is no indication as to what we should regard as adequate analogies'
  • 'The picture is there'
  • Chapter Six. Remarks On Colour, III.131-171
  • 'On the palette, white is the lightest colour'
  • 'But why should I call that "white glass"?'
  • 'Transparency and reflection only exist in the dimension of depth'
  • 'Darkness is not called a colour'
  • 'The question is: Who is supposed to understand the description?'
  • Chapter Seven. Remarks On Colour, III.172-229
  • 'What must our visual picture be like if it is to show us a transparent medium?'
  • 'The philosopher wants to master the geography of concepts'
  • 'What constitutes the decisive difference between white and the other colours?'
  • 'This much I can understand'
  • 'Whatever looks luminous does not look grey'
  • Chapter Eight. Remarks On Colour, III.230-350
  • 'We connect what is experienced with what is experienced'
  • 'It is easy to see that not all colour concepts are logically of the same kind'

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