Beyond Us: Language with Jennifer Hornsby
Philosophy For Our Times
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Witkensteins View of Philosophical Problems in Language
Witkenstein was interested in symbolic systems, not language as we know it. The later vitkenstein a briscly sat all philosophy is just language games. Our words don't depend on the implicit words we have and the networks of meaning in our own minds. What i may mean by god depends on what i mean by a number of other words like trans endend spirit, matter, causality. But you'd say, mo, words beyond that should have very well grounded, definite meaning.
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