Abstract

AZAR, Roberto. Wittgenstein: from solipsist closure to community openness. Rev. Guillermo Ockham [online]. 2017, vol.15, n.1, pp.81-93.  Epub June 17, 2021. ISSN 1794-192X.  https://doi.org/10.21500/22563202.3393.

In this paper I focused specifically on the question of solipsism, philosophical position to which Wittgenstein seems to have looked with special sympathy in his famous Tractatus logico-philosophicus (1921). To demonstrate, first of all, that the conception of language presented in the Tractatus inevitably led to commitment to an eminently solipsistic position and, secondly, that the subsequent conception of the meaning presented by Wittgenstein in his investigations, with the consequent opening of language an unavoidable community dimension, it brings with it a deep withdrawal from the often stultified solipsism. More specifically, it could be necessary in the tractarian conception to then consider how, in philosophical investigations, Wittgenstein finds essential difficulties in his previous perspective, the difficulties that lead him to conclude that language cannot but be public and, consequently, , cannot be a rejection of the solipsist position - in its two versions.

Keywords : Wittgenstein; solipsism; lenguage.

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