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Defez, A. (2021). The Problem of Animals in Ortega and Wittgenstein. Revista Guillermo De Ockham, 16(2), 7–13. https://doi.org/10.21500/22563202.3603 (Original work published December 20, 2018)
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Abstract

This paper is devoted to analyse the problem of animals in Ortega y Gasset and the mature Wittgenstein philosophies. The main conclusion is we should prefer the approach of Wittgenstein because it affords a discontinuous continuity picture -a degree continuity- between animals and human beings that explains better our epistemic and moral attributions to animals.

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L. Wittgenstein, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1966.

L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Oxford, Wiley Blackwell, 1966.

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L. Wittgenstein, On Certainty, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1969.

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