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Tractatus 5.1362 (reloaded)
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- 1. Università degli Studi di Torino
- 2. University of Granada, Spain
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At Tractatus 5.1362 Wittgenstein discusses free will; the paragraph is essentially anticipated in the Notebooks, 27.4.15. Very few commentators paid any attention to Wittgenstein's discussion; the few who did disagree on both the structure and the cogency of Wittgenstein's argument. I offer a new reconstruction, on which 5.1362 is not an argument for freedom of the will but an argument for its first sentence, namely “The freedom of the will consists in the impossibility of knowing [now] actions that still lie in the future". In a final section, I compare 5.1362 with Wittgenstein's much later (mid-Forties) lecture on the freedom of the will, as reported by Yorick Smythies in 1989.
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