‘In the Beginning was the Deed’: Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion

Abstract

In his 1949–51 notes edited under the heading On Certainty,¹ Wittgenstein engages the question of how to think about the foundations of human knowledge. This chapter shows the casual remarks on religion in On Certainty to be of systematic importance: Wittgenstein’s peculiar account of religion improves our understanding of epistemic certainty.