Wittgenstein on aspectuality, familiarity and physiognomy

SCOTTO, SILVIA CAROLINA

Córdoba

Workshop; III Workshop sobre Conceptos y Percepción; 2017

CIFYH- Fac. Filosofía y Humanidades, UNC

The second part of Philosophical Investigations and other contemporary writings, contain abundant material dedicated to the examination of visual perception, along the lines of similarities and differences manifested in the use of concepts such as seeing as, seeing aspects, noticing the aspect, aspect blindness, among other related ones. I will first identify the features I consider distinctive of aspectual perception in Wittgenstein´s last writings, while revising a few controversies around the issue. Second, I will refer to the features of aspectual vision of faces or physiognomy. Thirdly, I will refer to familiarization with spoken language and then with written language. These common traits help to understand the relationships between these two ways of seeing-as, as well as with the corresponding aspect incapacities: "face-blindness" and "meaning- blindness". Some general conclusions will be proposed by the end on ´how to see´ the notion "seeing-as" and on its effects on a more comprehensive vision of linguistic meaning.