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(2018) Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations, Dordrecht, Springer.
Kinds of analysis proliferate. The paradigm of analysis is mathematics; Newton spoke of scientific analysis; chemical analysis is a paradigm for that; psychologists speak of analyses; social scientists follow suit; linguists offer discourse analyses; critical analyses of Shakespeare's sonnets are also familiar. The analysis nearest to, or identical with, Wittgenstein-style philosophy, is the most famous case in the field of foundations of mathematics: Russell's 1905 view on definite descriptions. It has never left the agenda of analytic philosophy (Pelletier FJ, Linsky B: Russell vs. Frege on definite descriptions as singular terms. Griffin and Jacquette (eds), pp 40–64, 2009, conclusion). That explains his having found the discovery that language includes non-descriptive items downright silly.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00117-9_12
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Agassi, J. (2018). Analysis of analysis, in Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 225-244.
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