Wittgenstein's Perspective on "the Cause-Effect Language- game"

ウィトゲンシュタイン ノ ゲンイン ケッカ ノ ゲンゴ ゲーム ヘノ シテン

オカダ, タケシ

Okada, Takeshi

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

英語

言語ゲーム

『原因と結果』

パラドクス

因果連関への反実在論

Wittgenstein

Language-games

"Cause and Effect"

paradox

Anti-Realism on Causal nexus

Wittgenstein had made little remarks on Causality. In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he remarks mainly in Tautologies, so he makes no positive argument on Causality. We are interested in his point of view on it in his later philosophy. At his point of “Language-games”, in what ways does he argue scientific statements and causality? I in particular pick up “Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness”(Wittgenstein, 1937). In this paper, he comes up with ‘the Cause-Effect Language-game’ that start with our ‘reaction’ to ‘cause’. By elucidating it, we would get a clear overall representation of ‘Language-Games’. The purpose of my paper is to make up the check-list for our discussing ‘Language-games’. With this check-list, we would be able tp avoid two philosophical positions: the position that treats the casual nexus as real in metaphysical sense, and the position that gives rise to paradox by appealing logical possibility.

英語