Wittgenstein's remarks on colour : a commentary and interpretation /: a commentary and interpretation. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrew Lugg.
• Authors: Lugg, Andrew, 1942-
• Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Wittgenstein On Colour, 1916-1949 -- 'Scientific questions may interest me, but they never really grip me' -- 'For it is excluded by the logical structure of colour' -- 'The colour octahedron is grammar' -- 'Exactly so. ... We are calculating with these colour terms' -- 'A work in logic' -- Chapter Two. Remarks On Colour, Part II -- 'I read a great deal in Goethe's "Farbenlehre"' -- 'Is that the basis of the proposition that there can be no clear transparent white?' -- 'Does that define the concepts more closely?' -- 'There is merely an inability to bring the concepts into some kind of order' 'Phenomenological analysis ... is analysis of concepts' -- Chapter Three. Remarks On Colour, III.1-42 -- 'Here we have a sort of mathematics of colour' -- 'What is the importance of the concept of saturated colour?' -- 'The wrong picture confuses, the right picture helps' -- 'What ... importance does the question of the number of pure colours have?' -- 'Lack of clarity in philosophy is tormenting' -- Chapter Four Remarks On Colour, III.43-95 -- 'And that is logic' -- 'It is not at all clear a priori which are the simple colour concepts' -- 'There is no such thing as the pure colour concept' -- 'Can't we imagine people having a [different] geometry of colours?' 'Mayn't that open our eyes to the nature of those differentiations among colours?' -- Chapter Five. Remarks On Colour, III.96-130 -- 'The logic of the concept of colour is just much more complicated' -- 'The person who cannot play this game does not have this concept' -- 'Was that all nonsense?' -- 'There is no indication as to what we should regard as adequate analogies' -- 'The picture is there' -- Chapter Six. Remarks On Colour, III.131-171 -- 'On the palette, white is the lightest colour' -- 'But why should I call that "white glass"?' -- -- 'Transparency and reflection only exist in the dimension of depth' -- 'Darkness is not called a colour' 'The question is: Who is supposed to understand the description?' -- Chapter Seven. Remarks On Colour, III.172-229 -- 'What must our visual picture be like if it is to show us a transparent medium?' -- 'The philosopher wants to master the geography of concepts' -- 'What constitutes the decisive difference between white and the other colours?' -- 'This much I can understand' -- 'Whatever looks luminous does not look grey' -- Chapter Eight. Remarks On Colour, III.230-350 -- 'We connect what is experienced with what is experienced' -- 'It is easy to see that not all colour concepts are logically of the same kind'
• Publisher Details: London : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 199 pages)
• Subjects: 193; Color (Philosophy); Color (Philosophy); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785276750; 1785276751; 9781785276767
• Related ISBNs: 178527676X; 1785276743; 9781785276743
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based upon print version of record.
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