It presents set words connected by family resemblances and common context as "language-games."
This book's preface states that, because it consists of a number of notions that the author could not effectively fit together, the book is basically an album. This book argues that "simple" and "complex" have absolutely no meaning out of context, as in asking "What are the simple constituents of a chair?" This book's statement that "no course of action could be determined by a (*) rule" is the subject of an influential reading by Saul Kripke. This book finds an analogy for multiple possible views on the meaning of words, or "seeing that" and "seeing as", in the "duckrabbit" illusion. It presents set words connected by family resemblances and common context as "language-games." For 10 points, name this book which argues against private languages, a posthumous work by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
This book's preface states that, because it consists of a number of notions that the author could not effectively fit together, the book is basically an album.
Philosophical Investigations