COLOURS IN WITTGENSTEIN’S PHILOSOPHY

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This thesis aims to investigate Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of colour in detail. His main claim is that it is necessary to grasp the logical grammar of colour concepts called the geometry of colour or the mathematic of colour by Wittgenstein in order to understand colours. In this thesis, the complex usages of colour concepts, which he does not adequately describe in the Remarks on Colour, are explained by considering his debates on colour blindness. This thesis discusses some samples that demonstrated how achromatopsia patients use colour concepts in daily languages in order to understand Wittgenstein’s argument of the language–games about colours. In this way, this thesis suggests different points of view about the state of colour concepts in our lives by examining the relationship between Wittgenstein’s ideas and the effects of perceptual and visual diseases on language ability.

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Colour, Colour Language, Logical Grammar of Colour, Colour Blindness

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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K. Kuru, “COLOURS IN WITTGENSTEIN’S PHILOSOPHY,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2022.