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Quote: learning a language is a matter of training, based on our natural capacities and shared understanding of the world

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Group:
natural language
Topic:
language and life as a game

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In Wittgenstein's later view, words are used to … matter of training rather than explanation … And it rests ultimately on our natural capacities. … then we are expected, and expect others, to … … That on the whole we do is a … of significance and of fulfillment, of what is … of organism Wittgenstein calls 'forms of life.' Human … [Cavell, S., Must We Mean What We Say?, Scribner, 1969, p. 52]   Google-1   Google-2

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