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references t-z
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open systems
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natural language
Topic:
meaning vs. reference
Topic:
language and life as a game
Topic:
limitations of hierarchical structures
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meaning by use
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objects as a set of attributes
Topic:
limitations of formalism
Topic:
names as abbreviations for descriptions
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problem of classifying information
Topic:
change
Topic:
abstraction by resemblance
Topic:
rules
Topic:
trust
Topic:
private language argument for skepticism about meaning
Topic:
beliefs and propositional attitudes
Topic:
problem of other minds
Topic:
vitalism, the soul
Topic:
recognition
Topic:
consciousness
Topic:
coordinated movement
Topic:
philosophy of mind
Topic:
problems with analytic truth
Topic:
religion

Reference

Wittgenstein, L., Philosophical Investigations, New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1958, 3rd edition. Google

Quotations
8.18 ;;Quote: language is not complete, e.g. calculus; it is like an ancient city of many little streets surrounded by more regular suburbs
9.20 ;;Quote: if someone says "Bring me a slab" it could mean the same as "Slab!"; its meaning is sometimes 1 word and sometimes 4
11.23 ;;Quote: speaking a language is part of an activity, a language game; countless kinds of sentences, symbols, words
20.40 ;;Quote: meaning is not the same as reference; e.g., when Mr. N. dies the person dies but not the meaning of Mr. N.
22.47 ;;Quote: the correct answer to "Is the visual image of this tree composite?" is "That depends on the meaning of 'composite'"; i.e., reject the question
29.60 ;;Quote: compare "Bring me the broom" with "Bring me the broomstick and its brush"; the decomposition is nonsensical
31.65 ;;Quote: a language is things related to one another in many different ways; no one thing in common, e.g., language games
31.66 ;;Quote: don't think about what's common about 'games', look; there are multifarious relationships continually changing
32.67 ;;Quote: the things called 'games' form a family, and their similarities are family resemblances
32.67 ;;Quote: the strength of a concept is like the strength of a thread; both depend on the overlapping of many fibers
36.78 ;;Quote: can know how a clarinet sounds but not say what it is; similarly with the concept of 'games'
39.84 ;;Quote: a word is not everywhere bounded by rules; what if a game was everywhere bounded by rules?
39.84 ;;Quote: we can always imagine a doubt; e.g., of someone who believes an abyss may open up, but the doubt is not held by most
P302 ;;Quote: to imagine someone else's pain, have to imagine pain which is not felt (in another's body) on the model of pain which is felt
126.420 ;;Quote: one can image that people are automata, but just try to keep hold of this idea in the midst of your ordinary intercourse with others
148.556 ;;Quote: say "X" and "Y" for negation but "XX" meant yes (turn 180 degrees) while "YY" meant no (shake head); same reference, different ideas
156.604 ;;Quote: it is easy to have a false picture of recognition as comparing two impressions
161.618 ;;Quote: in the sense in which I cannot fail to will (Augustine), I cannot try to will either (Wittgenstein)
162.628 ;;Quote: voluntary movement is marked by the absence of surprise
162.629 ;;Quote: we have foreknowledge of the future in predicting one's own voluntary movements
224 ;;Quote: am I less certain that this man is in pain than that twice two is four? different kinds of certainty
224+;;Quote: if you are certain, isn't it that you are shutting your eyes in face of doubt? They are shut
226 ;;Quote: what has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life


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