THE PROPOSITIONS ABOUT THE COLORS – A POSSIBLE LOGICAL OPENING TO THE EMPIRICAL WORLD
an analysis of propositions about degrees and simple ideas on Ludwig Wittgenstein and David Hume
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Colors. World. Simple ideas. Ludwig Wittgenstein. David Hume.Abstract
The essay seeks to elaborate a logical-philosophical analysis based on the thought of David Hume and Ludwig Wittgenstein about the concept of color. It presents the way each author treats the problem concerning the ideas and propositions about degrees and tries to establish a proximity between these projects. This closeness may provide a key to logically investigate the relationship between the understanding and the world. Ideas about colors, or propositions about degrees, seem to carry, in their logical constitutiveness, an absolute meaning. However, after logically and empirically verifying such propositions, the problem of the exclusion of a part of the sense becomes explicit, making these propositions not "fit" into the world. The concept similarity-difference is used to help think about this relationship between logical and empirical verification and to better increase the understanding about what is the nature of the meaning-giving criterion for this kind of idea or proposition.
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