3 ;;Quote: native language is also for community; at the heart of social and political study

3 ;;Quote: language is a form of action instead of expressing assertions about the world through the denotations of words

4 ;;Quote: if language is an activity rather than a collection of labels, systematic inconsistencies are essential; invalidates other assumptions

11 ;;Quote: ordinary-language philosophy sees the meaning of a word in where it is used and what other words may replace it

27 ;;Quote: Wittgenstein realized language formed pictures of reality through a schematic drawing of an accident; a fact or word corresponds to reality

31 ;;Quote: while some words correspond to reality, other don't; a theory of language must account for both

32 ;;Quote: how does a child figure out what an adult is pointing at? an ostensive definition can always be variously interpreted

49 ;;Quote: how does a series define a rule? can always interpret the rule otherwise, e.g., adding two

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

70 ;;Quote: our concepts are assembled out of their uses; many different kinds of uses and many language games; heterogeneous

84 ;;Quote: meaning is the relatively fixed element running through a word's uses; it is also shaped and learned through use

85 ;;Quote: skepticism about meaning because words are signals, learned from use, with context-dependent meaning; these have contradictory implications

85 ;;Quote: true knowledge, as opposed to opinion or belief, is fixed, instilled by teaching, explainable, and true

88 ;;Quote: knowing something is neither infallible nor opinion; allows others to act and accept responsibility

88+;;Quote: knowing something implies responsibility for it being so; allows others to act on our knowledge

89 ;;Quote: skepticism about meaning from desire for system in our language, our ability to generalize and find patterns; yet definitions are incomplete

90 ;;Quote: rules about language are often inconsistent because words are used as tools, not labels

90 ;;Quote: we can not completely represent the nature of any thing by our words; Hertz 1857-94

91 ;;Quote: while a picture of a word seems to fix the sense unambiguously, the actual use is muddled; not suitable for generalization

93 ;;Quote: we tend to think about meaning abstractly, in isolation from its uses, but meaning depends on context and use; causes skepticism

154 ;;Quote: while moral positions are a matter of individual choice, there are still objective standards for which an excuse is unacceptable; e.g., inadvertently stepping on a baby