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Sraffa and Wittgenstein

In: A Reflection on Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory

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  • Ajit Sinha

    (Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

Abstract
This paper documents the long and very intense intellectual friendship between Sraffa and Wittgenstein through their extant correspondence. It argues that most likely Wittgenstein discarded the Tractarian thesis of a ‘picture’ theory of meaning in favour of a ‘language game’ theory of meaning in the Philosophical Investigations because of Sraffa’s consistent criticism of the metaphysical foundations of all theories based on human psychology or ‘mental processes’, since no objective data for such foundations exist. It highlights the similarity between the structural relationship between objective data in Sraffa’s system of basic goods and Wittgenstein’s rules of a language game.

Suggested Citation

  • Ajit Sinha, 2021. "Sraffa and Wittgenstein," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Ajit Sinha (ed.), A Reflection on Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory, chapter 0, pages 203-228, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-47206-1_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47206-1_7
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