TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soutif,Ludovic
TI  - The Meaning of Nicod for Wittgenstein's Phenomenology
PY  - 2005///.
							
N1  - 47
N2  - Although Wittgenstein’s manuscripts from the transitional period contain only a few references to Nicod, a careful reading of Geometry in the Sensible World proves to be decisive for gaining a proper understanding of Wittgenstein’s phenomenology of the late 1920s. This paper argues that Wittgenstein recasts the problem first stated by Nicod regarding the nature of the relation of spatial inclusion in such a manner that in 1929 he is led to replace the old Tractarian criterion of simplicity and complexity with a new deabsolutised phenomenologico-grammatical criterion applicable to any type of visual data whatsoever. More generally, the priority given by Wittgenstein to the visual finds its greatest justification in Nicod’s construction of a complete and self-contained geometry of vision. The structural properties displayed by Nicod as those of the visual field (simultaneity and diversity of the sensible places, colourness) are tacitly utilised by Wittgenstein to argue in favour of the possibility of a phenomenological description, thought of as a description of the places in visual space
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-de-metaphysique-et-de-morale-2005-2-page-215?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -