Quote: the set of responses in which we agree, and the way they interweave with our activities, is our form of life; it is a brute fact [»kripSA_1982]

Quote: a natural language is about regularities, not rules; using a word (or screwdriver) incorrectly is not breaking a rule [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: if a locution sounds odd, it is an excellent clue to a regularity of the language; e.g., 'There is an apple good on my lap.' [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: Wittgenstein's skeptical solution depends on agreement and checkability; e.g., for using 'table' and 'pain' [»kripSA_1982]

Quote: for the semantic analysis of a language, just need the course of a child's life, not the entire world [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: one is not taught one's native language, one learns it (before going to school); again, no rules of language [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: learning a language is a matter of training, based on our natural capacities and shared understanding of the world [»pitkHF_1972]

Note: is language independent of an individual grasping a language, as an object is independent of someone grasping the object? [»martAP_1990, OK]

Quote: human practices are a hopeless tangle, yet it forms the background that determines our judgment and concepts; must accept as is [»dreyHL_1991]

Quote: there is no such thing as a logical machinery behind our symbols; where logical machinery is like a clock plus necessity [»wittL_1939]

Quote: only an appeal to semantics can resolve the syntactic ambiguity of 'time flies like an arrow'; three acceptable structures [»oettAG_1972]

Quote: by uttering a sentence we make a move in the language game; a linguistic act

Quote: a game is an artificial realization of what language offers in a natural form [»sowaJF_1984]

Quote: a language is things related to one another in many different ways; no one thing in common, e.g., language games [»wittL_1958a]

Quote: speaking a language is part of an activity, a language game; countless kinds of sentences, symbols, words [»wittL_1958a]

Quote: children learn language by language games; complete systems of human communication [»wittL_1958]

Quote: a word is not everywhere bounded by rules; what if a game was everywhere bounded by rules? [»wittL_1958a]

Quote: the 'game' of attributing concepts to conforming individuals would lose its point outside of the community [»kripSA_1982]

Quote: the Liar's paradox is just a language game that behaves differently than others [»wittL_1939]

Quote: our entire lives depend on the 'game' of attributing to others the mastery of certain rules; e.g., the rule of addition [»kripSA_1982]

Quote: that we mean addition by '+' is part of a 'language game' that sustains itself by the brute fact that we generally agree [»kripSA_1982]

Quote: each person who claims to be following a rule can be checked by others in the community; a primitive part of the language game [»kripSA_1982]

Quote: under what conditions can a declarative sentence be asserted or denied; and what is the role of such assertion/denial; but not primary [»kripSA_1982]

Quote: work is impersonal and objective while the purpose of play lies in the player [»drucPF_1974]

Quote: children loved the zooming environment of Pad++; they spent hours drawing faces within the eyes of faces and zooming back and forth; went on "rides" with zooming noises and stories [»druiA3_1997]

Quote: an living organism plays a game with its environment; it must evaluate situations and choose actions [»bernN_1962]

Quote: the process of lemma-incorporation yields an infinite regress unless proof is a game or there are trivially true lemmas [»lakaI_1976]

Quote: mathematicians use a situational logic that is neither formal, mechanistic, nor irrational blind guessing [»lakaI_1976]

Quote: proofs and refutations--a proof can be respectable without being flawless; Seidel 1847, c.f. Hegel and Popper [»lakaI_1976]

Quote: ordinary language philosophy is right to doubt the adequacy of any criterion, but wrong to question the study of ontological presuppositions [»quinWV2_1947]