Comments on Professor von Wright’s “Wittgenstein on Certainty”

Abstract

I am sure that everyone present will feet very indebted to Professor von Wright for a particularly lucid presentation of the main ideas of a difficult and as yet unfamiliar work of Wittgenstein’s and for his interesting suggestions regarding the application and scope of those ideas. If I dwell first on some parallels (to which he has drawn attention) with Wittgenstein’s earlier work, the Tractatus, I hope it will become apparent that this is not wholly due to my own pre-occupations but has an important bearing on the subject of our meetings.