Complexes, rule-following, and language games

Wittgenstein's philosophical method and its relevance to semiotics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4472233
AutoresSergio Torres-Martínez (0000-0002-8823-1676, Universidad de Antioquia , Medellin , Colombia, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume2021
Fascículo242
Páginas63-100
Data de publicação2021-09-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/sem-2019-0113
OpenAlexW3192850112
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas46

This paper forges links between early analytic philosophy and the posits of semiotics. I show that there are some striking and potentially quite important, but perhaps unrecognized, connections between three key concepts in Wittgenstein's middle and later philosophy, namely,complex (Philosophical Grammar),rule-following (Philosophical Investigations), andlanguage games (Philosophical Investigations). This reveals the existence of a conceptual continuity between Wittgenstein's "early" and "later" philosophy that can be applied to the analysis of the iterability of representation in computer-generated images. Methodologically, this paper clarifies to at least some degree, the nature, progress and promise of an approach to doing philosophy and semiotics from amodally modest perspective that sees in the intellectual products of humanities, and not in unreflective empiricism, the future of scientific development. This hybrid, non-reductionist approach shows, among other things, that semiotic processes are encoded by specific types of complexes in computer-generated images that display iterability in time and space

Empiricism · Epistemology · Grammar · Key (lock) · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Reductionism · Relevance (law) · Representation (politics) · Semiotics · Sociology · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Semiotics and Representation Studies