EVIDÊNCIAS E CIRCUNSTÂNCIAS – LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN E A CERTEZA

In this essay I discuss some considerations about a particular passage of Wittgenstein's On Certainty. My aim in presenting these considerations is to analyze Wittgenstein's argument about the differences between types of evidence for the "truth of a statement. Wittgenstein uses as an example to discuss the relationship between evidence and circumstances whem he focus on the contradiction between George Moore and who he calls Catholics. Interestingly in this discussion is that Wittgenstein says that Moore would be contradicted by Catholics and not “denied” for them. Considering the context of this discussion I will try to show that there is a link between evidence for the truth of a statement and the particular circumstances of where we took this evidence. We can consider that Wittgenstein is arguing for some kind of relactivism about knowledge but Wittgenstein shows that our evidences are guided by our image of the world. To discuss this argument I first present the background of the issue; a second step discuss what is the contradiction between Moore and Catholics. My intention is to show that the contradiction is between two world images. Finally I discuss and analyze the expression “I would have to resign myself” that Wittgenstein used with regard to the two different images (namely Moore and the Catholics) of the world that may be in conflict.