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Wittgenstein on Inner Processes and Outward Criteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

John Hunter
John Hunter*
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University of Toronto
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Wittgenstein's dictum in 580 of Philosophical Investigations, ‘An “inner process” stands in need of outward criteria’, is one of his most frequently mentioned remarks, and is largely treated as a particularly clear and unproblematic statement, at least as Wittgenstein's sayings go. When anyone finds it unproblematic, he naturally does not say what he takes it to mean; but if it is as mystifying as I will claim, and if its meaning is as well concealed as I will suggest, it is almost certain that it has been widely and seriously misunderstood.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , December 1977 , pp. 805 - 817
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Copyright © The Authors 1977

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* Unadorned numbers refer to sections of the Philosophical Investigations.