[C] [Wittrs] Re: Essences versus Framework
- From: "J D" <ubersicht@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:53:47 -0000
SW,
Quick reply to this while I work on reply on the transitional Wittgenstein.
It seems to me that there's a lot in your use of "framework" that has
affinities with the idea of defining by genera and differentia, rather than by
necessary and sufficient conditions. At least some of your examples might
suggest that in offering the framework in which a word finds its use, you are
offering a generum of which the term may serve as a differentium.
Does this replace essences?
As Wittgenstein notes, any explanation of a rule can be misunderstood. That is
always a possibility. Such an instruction in the use of a word might work in
some instances and not in others. I'm not sure what else one could mean by
asking whether one way of speaking could replace another in this context.
JPDeMouy
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