Ep. 309: Wittgenstein On Certainty (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Language Games
Wes Moore: I think it's helpful to think about philosophy as a game and in terms of rules. In the context of a language game, what happens when someone violates the rules is they don't make any sense. The tautologies of logic, for instance, are not something that strictly speaking makes sense within the game. So defining how the king moves is not part of the game of chess. It's the meta language of describing the rules of chess.
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