SINGULARITY AND VISUAL PERCEPTION

Abstract

This paper deals with the mutations in Wittgenstein’s treatment of the notions of “generality”and of “singularity”, from his first philosophy, in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to his later maturephilosophy represented by the Philosophical Investigations. As we shall see, Wittgenstein’s philosophicalhandling of the notion of “visual perception” plays a key role in those conceptual transformations.