Naslov
Wittgenstein's Dubbit III: Caught in Kirchberg am Aspekt-Wechsel

Autori
Kristijan, Krkač

Izvornik
Wittgenstein-Studien (1868-7431) 1/2010 (2010), 1; 121-151

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Wittgenstein; perception; duck-rabbit; philosophical grammar

Sažetak
In the paper the author examines Wittgenstein’s examples of aspect–seeing and aspect–change (der Aspektwechsel, PI p. 195), particularly the duck-rabbit head, or abbreviated as “the Dubbit”. The main proposal of the paper is that seeing an aspect is an issue of the philosophical morphology, and eventually of the philosophical grammar, namely the grammar of sight (following J. Good). An argument for the proposal consists of explication of Wittgenstein’s standpoint regarding the Dubbit. His explication consists of balanced and partial acceptance and rejection of several parts of two opposite “theories”, namely an empiricist one, and the Gestalt one. The balanced solution itself, which says that a seeing an aspect is “half perception and half interpretation” (following G. Baker), is introduced in order to apply morphological method in order to achieve clear descriptions regarding perception, and finally the grammar of sight. Grammatical, or perhaps hinge propositions of the grammar of sight are suggested in the paper, but only regarding the example of the Dubbit, such as for instance “The Dubbit consists of the following aspects…”

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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