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When do Empirical Methods By-pass ‘The Problems Which Trouble Us’?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

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His discussion of aesthetics was mingled in a curious way with criticism of assumptions which he said were made by Frazer in The Golden Bough and also with criticisms of Freud (G. E. Moore, ‘Wittgenstein's Lectures, 1930–33)’.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1983

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3 Moore, G. E., Philosophical Papers (New York, 1962), 308309Google Scholar. For further reflections on this issue see ‘Wittgenstein and the Fire-festivals’, in Perspectives on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Block, Irving (ed.) (Oxford: Blackwell, 1982).Google Scholar

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