image - Wittgenstein (Author), Takashi Fujimoto (Translator)

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    • Language Games
    • We can also think of the whole process of word usage in Section 2 as a game through which a child learns his or her native language. I call these games “language games,” and I will often speak of a primitive language as a language game. p.20

    • familial resemblance
    • Argument that there are, or are not, common characteristics of what we call “games.”
    • We see a complex web of similarities that overlap and intersect each other, broad and narrow. p.70

    • Languages, Games, Numbers, etc.
    • Can there be concepts that have no defined boundaries, and of course there can be, we are talking about.
    • private language p.188

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