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Learning to Believe: Challenges in Children’s Acquisition of a World-Picture in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty
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Ariso, J. M. (2015). Learning to Believe: Challenges in Children’s Acquisition of a World-picture in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 34(3), 2015, 311-325
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Ariso Salgado, José María (1)
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Resumen
Wittgenstein scholars have tended to interpret the acquisition of certainties, and
by extension, of a world-picture, as the achievement of a state in which these certainties are
assimilated in a seemingly unconscious way as one masters language-games. However, it
has not been stressed that the attainment of this state often involves facing a series of
challenges or difficulties which must be overcome for the development of the worldpicture
and therefore the socialization process to be achieved. After showing, on the one
hand, how a world-picture is usually developed, and on the other hand, why a child who
seemingly found itself trapped in a precocious skepticism might have serious problems in
assimilating certainties, in this paper, I describe some of the challenges children often meet
as they acquire a world-picture. Since the overcoming of these challenges is often needed
for children to develop a world-picture, I aim at raising the awareness of the necessity of
‘learning to believe’, that is, of developing a series of skills that allow children to
undertake the challenges described in this paper.