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Title: The Thinking Self in Wittgenstein’s Early Transitional Phase
Authors: Sushobhona Pal
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Sushobhona Pal Assistant Professor, Calcutta
MLA 8 Pal, Sushobhona. "The Thinking Self in Wittgenstein’s Early Transitional Phase." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 5, no. 12, Dec. 2020, pp. 4051-4060, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i12.025. Accessed Dec. 2020. APA 6 Pal, S. (2020, December). The Thinking Self in Wittgenstein’s Early Transitional Phase. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 5(12), 4051-4060. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i12.025 Chicago Pal, Sushobhona. "The Thinking Self in Wittgenstein’s Early Transitional Phase." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 5, no. 12 (December 2020), 4051-4060. Accessed December, 2020. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i12.025.
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Abstract: After taking a sabbatical from active philosophy, Wittgenstein returned to Cambridge in 1929 to receive the doctorate degree and was appointed a Fellow of Trinity College from 1930. The early transitional phase covers the years from 1929-32. The Philosophical Remarks may be considered as the first work in this period. It was also the work which helped Wittgenstein renew the grant for his research. This phase registers certain fresh and novel conceptions. Wittgenstein considers the concept of the thinking self in terms of representing phenomena. He shows the non-existence of the thinking self in this context. This paper attempts to analyse Wittgenstein’s views on the thinking self in this period and show how he proves the non-existence of the thinking self by conceiving mono-centric languages.

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