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- Title
A Response to Dehnel's 'Defending Wittgenstein'.
- Authors
Wheeler, Samuel J.
- Abstract
This is a reply to 'Defending Wittgenstein', Piotr Dehnel's critique of my article, 'Defending Wittgenstein's Remarks on Cantor from Putnam'. I first show that my position is much more in agreement with Felix Mühlhölzer than Dehnel takes it to be, and that his criticism of me is nothing more than a failure to recognize this. I then show how Dehnel incorrectly reads Wittgenstein as rejecting set theory as false. It is an overemphasis on and a much too narrow picture of 'applicability' which leads him to this view. Finally, I conclude by rejecting Dehnel's view that Wittgenstein was a finitist about mathematics.
- Subjects
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig, 1889-1951; SET theory; MATHEMATICS
- Publication
Philosophical Investigations, 2024, Vol 47, Issue 2, p258
- ISSN
0190-0536
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/phin.12413