Лингвистический поворот

1. Complete skepticism (the notion that a belief in philosophical skepticism requires just as much justification as other beliefs);
2. Fallibilism (the view that there are no metaphysical guarantees against the need to revise a belief);
3. Antidualism about "facts" and "values";
4. That practice, properly construed, is primary in philosophy. (WL 152)

1. All ideas and perceptions concerning reality are given to our minds in terms of our own mental language.
2. Mental languages specify how objects in the world are to be constructed from our sense data.
3. Different mental languages will specify different ontologies (different objects existing in the world).
4. There is no way to perfectly translate between two different mental languages: there will always be several, consistent ways in which the terms in each language can be mapped onto the other.
5. Reality apart from ... Читать дальше »