AbstractThis paper documents the long and very intense intellectual friendship between Sraffa and W…
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AbstractThis paper documents the long and very intense intellectual friendship between Sraffa and Wittgenstein through their extant correspondence. It argues that most likely Wittgenstein discarded the Tractarian thesis of a ‘picture’ theory of meaning in favour of a ‘language game’ theory of meaning in the Philosophical Investigations because of Sraffa’s consistent criticism of the metaphysical foundations of all theories based on human psychology or ‘mental processes’, since no objective data for such foundations exist. It highlights the similarity between the structural relationship between objective data in Sraffa’s system of basic goods and Wittgenstein’s rules of a language game.@PhilosophyCafe ♨️