LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ON COLOR CONCEPTS AND THEIR LOGIC

Surovtsev V. A., Rodin K. A.

DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2018-4-222-234

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Valery Surovtsev, Tomsk State Pedagogical University, National Research Tomsk State University, Russia. E-mail: surovtsev1964@mail.ru Kirill Rodin, Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, Russia. E-mail: rodin.kir@gmail.com

The paper suggests some keys to understanding Ludwig Wittgenstein’s late notes on colors. The authors point here at the crucial difference between the internal and external relations. This distinction is comparatively common for the later Wittgenstein and appears one of the main contexts in Wittgenstein’s investigations of colors as research of kinds of logical differences. The authors also consider Wittgenstein’s scattered notes in accordance with the following main contexts: language games and their dependence on perception, the relationship between color concepts and empirical judgments about the color of everyday objects, identity, interdependence between colors as a kind of a logical system and everyday language games. The paper also focuses on various exceptions from our color system (from the cases of color blindness to the natural relativization of color logic within a variety of language games). Finally, the authors consider the problem of meaning in connection with the study of color concepts.

Keywords: color, color concepts, identity, logic of colors, language games, internal and external relations

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Issue: 4, 2018

Series of issue: Issue 4

Rubric: ARTICLES

Pages: 222 — 234

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