Subject as the inner pole of the symbol. Anti-mentalistic interpretation of Wittgensteinʼs Tractatus Cover Image

Podmiot jako wewnętrzny biegun symbolizmu. Antymentalistyczna wykładnia „Traktatu logiczno-filozoficznego”
Subject as the inner pole of the symbol. Anti-mentalistic interpretation of Wittgensteinʼs Tractatus

Author(s): Jakub Gomułka
Subject(s): Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, Existentialism, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Hermeneutics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Ludwig Wittgenstein; Tractatus logico-philosophicus; anti-realism; antimentalism; transcendental subject; symbolism

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to offer a radical anti-mentalistic interpretation of Wittgensteinʼs Tractatus. Contrary to mentalistic approaches postulating that the task of projection must be performed by a subject (transcendental or psychological), the author claims – after Rhees, Diamond and McGinn – that the projection itself is an intrinsic relation within the symbol. The main point of the paper is the thesis that the transcendenal subjectivity – or, as Wittgenstein calls it, the metaphysical subject – is the inner pole of the symbol, and since the meaning of the symbol is itʼs other inner pole (as anti-realist interpretations point out), the whole intentional relation of symbolizing is intrinsic to the symbolism.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 69-86
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish