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Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Form
Form Philosophy
Year
Year 1953
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 200

A philosopher takes apart his own earlier system and argues that words mean what we do with them, not what they secretly stand for.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein

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