Ludwig Wittgenstein · Philosophy
Wittgenstein returns to philosophy and overturns his own first book. Meaning is not a picture and words do not mean by labelling objects; the meaning of a word is its <em>use</em> in the practices of life. Language is a motley of ‘language-games’ woven into ‘forms of life’, with no single hidden essence.
You learned that the later Wittgenstein rejected the picture theory: meaning is not a label or a picture but the use of a word in practice; language is a motley of ‘language-games’ embedded in ‘forms of life’, and concepts are united by ‘family resemblance’ rather than a common esse…
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