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51 – Suits – The Grasshopper

Game Studies Study Buddies

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The Book of Wittgenstein by Norman Malcolm

In Wittgenstein's new book, he attacks the idea that a game can't be defined. He says it is possible to define games transculturally across time and space eternally. In one of his letters, Norman Malcolm describes a game they played with Wittgenstein in which you orbit your wife around yourself as if she were an earth-bound planet. The author calls this " appendix two," where he really goes to town on how much he hates Wittgenstein.

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