ThesaHelp: references t-z
Topic: meaning by language as a whole
Topic: philosophy of mind
Topic: recognition
Topic: definition by example
Topic: word vs. picture
Topic: meaning without reference
Topic: natural language as action or problem solving
Group: naming
Topic: pidgin and creole languages
Topic: children vs. adults
Topic: language and life as a game
Topic: what is truth
Topic: discrete vs. continuous
Topic: natural language as communication
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Reference
Wittgenstein, L.,
The blue and brown books, New York, Harper & Row, 1958 .
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Quotations
5 ;;Quote: a sentence (sign) gets its significance from the language (a system of signs) that it belongs to
| 6 ;;Quote: thinking is essentially the activity of operating with signs
| 12 ;;Quote: 'choose a yellow ball' might bring up a yellow image, or a feeling of recognition on seeing a yellow ball
| 31 ;;Quote: though you can't hang a person that doesn't exist, you can look for the person
| 41 ;;Quote: there need not be a mental process of thinking, hoping, etc. independent of expressing a thought, a hope, etc.
| 77 ;;Quote: Augustine was taught to speak by learning the names of things
| 81 ;;Quote: children learn language by language games; complete systems of human communication
| 87;;Quote: the strength of a rope is due to a vast number of overlapping fibers
| 185 ;;Quote: when we communicate a feeling, something which we can never know happens at the other end; we can only receive another expression
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