Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-04T17:15:18.394Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Wittgensteinian Fideism Again: A Reply to Hudson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Kai Nielsen
Kai Nielsen
Affiliation:
New York University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

W. D. Hudson's criticism of some points in my ‘Wittgensteinian Fideism’ are challenging and deserve comment. I remain, however, unconvinced that they require any modification in my assessment of Wittgensteinian Fideism. I shall try to justify this conviction.

Type
Discussion
Information
Philosophy , Volume 44 , Issue 167 , January 1969 , pp. 63 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1969

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Grant, C. K., Belief and Action, (Durham, England: 1960), pp. 13–15.Google Scholar

2 I agree that they are complicated and varied, though, as I have tried to show, they have a common core as well. What I am maintaining here is that his lengthy quotation from Wittgenstein does not show this to be so nor was it intended by Wittgenstein to establish this point.

3 I try to give some grounds for maintaining this against Wittgenstein in my Quest For God, forthcoming.