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I hope that David Pears’s acute but eirenic defence of Wittgenstein’s particularism will prompt further debate about this important but insufficiently discussed question. One of his quotations from the Investigations (p. 48) illustrates why I call his paper ‘eirenic’; for convenience I repeat it here.
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McGuinness, B., Oliveri, G. (1994). Reply to Pears. In: McGuinness, B., Oliveri, G. (eds) The Philosophy of Michael Dummett. Synthese Library, vol 239. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8336-7_15
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