What Is Wrong Indeed?

This is a critical response to Dr. Tamara Dobler's paper “What Is Wrong with Hacker's Wittgenstein? On Grammar, Context and Sense‐Determination.” It demonstrates that Dr. Dobler has no idea of what Wittgenstein meant by “grammar” or “rule of grammar.” She does not know what Wittgenstein me...

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Published in:	Philosophical investigations Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 251 - 268
Main Author:	Hacker, P. M. S.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-07-2013 Blackwell Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	Epistemology. Philosophy of science. Theory of knowledge Grammar Philosophers Philosophy Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951) Knowledge theory
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Summary:	This is a critical response to Dr. Tamara Dobler's paper “What Is Wrong with Hacker's Wittgenstein? On Grammar, Context and Sense‐Determination.” It demonstrates that Dr. Dobler has no idea of what Wittgenstein meant by “grammar” or “rule of grammar.” She does not know what Wittgenstein meant by “grammatical proposition,” nor does she know what a compositional account of meaning or a category mistake is. She labours under the illusion that to say, as Wittgenstein did, that a rule of grammar excludes a form of words from use is incompatible with the claim that whether an utterance makes sense may be a context‐dependent issue. Unlike Dr. Dobler, Wittgenstein did not.
Bibliography:	istex:F6D42D8586552EF6DB52FE409F9CEDDE488590CD ArticleID:PHIN12020 ark:/67375/WNG-ZGQ5CGT7-H
ISSN:	0190-0536 1467-9205
DOI:	10.1111/phin.12020