Resumen

GARBER, Dinu. Reflections on Wittgenstein’s On Certainty: Foundationalism, Knowledge and Certainty. RF [online]. 2007, vol.25, n.57, pp.7-51. ISSN 0798-1171.

The article deals with the paradox that emerges, on one hand, from the need of foundationalism and, on the other, by its impossibility. Faced with the problem, it suggests a reading of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty which allows a different conception of foundationalism - one in which the fundament and the founded belong to different spheres, and where truth is no longer linked to certainty. Due to Wittgenstein’s lack of clarity regarding the required changes in the certainty system, ideas from Gadamer’s philosophy must be considered in order to provide an adequate reading of the sections 94-99 of On Certainty.

Palabras clave : Foundationalism; certainty; knowledge; Wittgenstein; Gadamer.