blue book

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

• blue book

• Amazon

• Lecture Notes in Cambridge

History

• early period - Essays in Philosophy of Logic and Philosophy
  • We must be silent about the unspeakable.
    • semantics ideas
    • Language is a tool for copying the world
• intermission
• Middle to Late
  • Cambridge
  • Words are symbolic operations that follow rules
    • Chess Analogies
  • A “game” is not just one with clear rules. - familial resemblance - Language Games
    • Symbol life is the use of symbols
    • Philosophy as therapy
      • philosophical puzzlement resolution
  • p.48 Assuming that the meaning of a word is to find a common element through its use
    • → familial resemblance
  • Language used only to express “personal experience” = “private language”

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