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WITTGENSTEIN, LANGUAGE, AND POWER A Conversation With Ruper Read

Political Philosophy Podcast

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Wittgenstein's Tools Are Quite Useful, Right?

Wittgenstein was very worried that people would get obsessed with these tools. He didn't want them to be turned into something like technical terms or items in a theory which can then be grind ground out in a kind of mechanical way. Rather, what he was hoping to do was to stimulate people to think and see what is to look and see how our language works. And if you don't feel some of that difficulty, then you're not getting it.

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