Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy
Philosophy Bites
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What Is the Real Essence of a Language?
Wittgenstein's philosophy is unusual. He tends to work by example more than anything else. But trying to understand what the example is doing is where the real philosophical work begins. The very same word can perform different functions, he says. Sometimes we have sentences that describe reality but not a state of affairs.
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