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SUMMA > Biblioteca Digital > Revistas UPSA > Cuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofía > 2022, volume 49 > Pages 255-268. HOW TO CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO HISTORY BY ASSEMBLING CERTAINTIES: SOME GUIDELINES DRAWING FROM WITTGENSTEIN’S AND ORTEGA Y GASSET’S LATER WORKS
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HOW TO CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO HISTORY BY ASSEMBLING CERTAINTIES: SOME GUIDELINES DRAWING FROM WITTGENSTEIN’S AND ORTEGA Y GASSET’S LATER WORKS
Ariso, José María
History; Certainty; Belief; Wittgenstein; Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset relied on his notion of ‘belief’ to argue that historical studies should consist, above all, in assembling the distinctive and characteristic beliefs of a historical period: for, in this way, we could know what was regarded as reality within that context, which might allow us to gain a better understanding of the historical events under study. As I will show in this paper, Ludwig Wittgenstein did not evince an interest in historical studies; yet his notion of ‘certainty’ is very similar to Ortega y Gasset’s conception of ‘belief’, in addition to which certainty in Wittgenstein’s sense may be of great help to better understand not only how historical studies can be conducted by following Ortega y Gasset’s suggestions, but also which risks are entailed by such studies
https://doi.org/10.36576/2660-9509.49.255
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