Wittgenstein's remarks on colour: a commentary and interpretation

by Lugg, Andrew

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Full title :Wittgenstein's remarks on colour : a commentary and interpretation / Andrew Lugg.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Anthem Press
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021.

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Description:1 online resource (xiv, 199 pages).

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ISBN:9781785276750, 1785276751, 9781785276767, 178527676X
oclc:on1314282092
LC Classification:B3376.W564
Dewey Decimal:193

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Wittgenstein On Colour, 1916-1949 -- 'Scientific questions may interest me, but they never really grip me' -- 'For it is excluded by the logical structure of colour' -- 'The colour octahedron is grammar' -- 'Exactly so. ... We are calculating with these colour terms' -- 'A work in logic' -- Chapter Two. Remarks On Colour, Part II -- 'I read a great deal in Goethe's "Farbenlehre"' -- 'Is that the basis of the proposition that there can be no clear transparent white?' -- 'Does that define the concepts more closely?' -- 'There is merely an inability to bring the concepts into some kind of order'

'Phenomenological analysis ... is analysis of concepts' -- Chapter Three. Remarks On Colour, III.1-42 -- 'Here we have a sort of mathematics of colour' -- 'What is the importance of the concept of saturated colour?' -- 'The wrong picture confuses, the right picture helps' -- 'What ... importance does the question of the number of pure colours have?' -- 'Lack of clarity in philosophy is tormenting' -- Chapter Four Remarks On Colour, III.43-95 -- 'And that is logic' -- 'It is not at all clear a priori which are the simple colour concepts' -- 'There is…