Reductio ad vacuum

• Autores: Vicente Sanfélix
• Localización: Anuario filosófico, ISSN 0066-5215, Vol. 28, Nº 2, 1995 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La filosofía de lo mental de Wittgenstein), págs. 311-334
• Idioma: español
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  • Cartesianism was always a subject to Wittgenstein's criticism. In his case against it, he employed a general strategy that I have called "Reductio ad vacuum". There is something right in Cartesianism but without a hidden confusing premise, the truth of Cartesianism is empty. According to the early Wittgenstein, Cartesianism was right be-cause Solipsism is true: the Self is the center of the world. But without confusing this metaphysical Self with the psychological one, Solipsism becomes empty and no different from Realism.