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ANALELE UN<strong>IV</strong>ERSITĂŢII DE VEST DIN TIMIŞOARA<br />

SERIA FILOSOFIE ŞI ŞTIINŢE ALE COMUNICĂRII<br />

<strong>VOL</strong>. <strong>IV</strong> (<strong>XXI</strong>), <strong>2009</strong><br />

ISSN 1844 – 1351 (online)<br />

ISSN 1842 – 6638 (print)<br />

ON WITTGENSTEIN AND THE IMAGINARY NUMBER<br />

A QUASI-CONVENTIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL APORIA 1<br />

OF THIS PLURI-LEMATIC NUMBER<br />

Virgil Laurenţiu SPĂTARU<br />

West Univer<strong>si</strong>ty of Timişoara<br />

In Philosophical investigations 2 , Part II, Chapter X, where we<br />

especially find remarks on the phrase "I believe ...", Ludwig Wittgenstein<br />

in<strong>si</strong>sts on the imaginary number in the following paragraph:<br />

1 Philosophical term of Greek origin which means: no way out (from: α-πορεία) or<br />

entangling, disorientation, bewil<strong>de</strong>rment (from: άπο-ρέω, άπο-ρία);<br />

2 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Second (bilingual) edition<br />

(original / English) 1958, translated by G. E. M. Ascombe, Blackwell Publishers Ltd<br />

108 Cowley Road Oxford OX4 1JF UK;

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