Wittgenstein, Language and Information: "Back to the Rough Ground!" / Edition 1

by David Blair

Overview

“The more narrowly we examine language, the sharper becomes the conflict - tween it and our requirement. (For the crystalline purity of logic was, of course, not a result of investigation; it was a requirement. ) The conflict becomes intolerable; the requirement is now in danger of becoming empty. —We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk; so we need 1 friction. Back to the rough ground!” —Ludwig Wittgenstein This manuscript consists of four related parts: a brief overview of Wittgenstein’s p- losophy of language and its relevance to information systems; a detailed explanation of Wittgenstein’s late philosophy of language and mind; an extended discussion of the re- vance of his philosophy to understanding some of the problems inherent in information systems, especially those systems which rely on retrieval based on some representation of the intellectual content of that information. And, fourthly, a series of detailed footnotes which cite the sources of the numerous quotations and provide some discussion of the related issues that the text inspires. The first three of these parts can each be read by itself with some profit, although they are related and do form a conceptual whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402041129
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	05/05/2006
Series:	Information Science and Knowledge Management , #10
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Language and Mind.- Wittgenstein, Language and Information.