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'Concerning the Author', 'Philosophical Investigations' and 'Buddhacarita'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Wittgenstein rejected his earlier view that the form of language is the form of the world [Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Asking about verification is only one way of asking about the meaning of a proposition [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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For Wittgenstein, words are defined by their use, just as chess pieces are [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]
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We do not achieve meaning and understanding in our heads, but in the world [Wittgenstein, by Rowlands]
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We all seem able to see quite clearly how sentences represent things when we use them [Wittgenstein]
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In the majority of cases the meaning of a word is its use in the language [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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To understand a sentence means to understand a language [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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We don't have 'meanings' in our minds in addition to verbal expressions [Wittgenstein]
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Make the following experiment: say "It's cold here" and mean "It's warm here" [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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How do words refer to sensations? [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
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The standard metre in Paris is neither one metre long nor not one metre long [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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Was Wittgenstein's problem between individual and community, or between occasions for an individual? [Rowlands on Wittgenstein]
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If a brilliant child invented a name for a private sensation, it couldn't communicate it [Wittgenstein]
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We cannot doublecheck mental images for correctness (or confirm news with many copies of the paper) [Wittgenstein]
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If we only named pain by our own case, it would be like naming beetles by looking in a private box [Wittgenstein]
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If the reference is private, that is incompatible with the sense being public [Wittgenstein, by Scruton]
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Getting from perceptions to words cannot be a private matter; the rules need an institution of use [Wittgenstein]
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To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity
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Common human behaviour enables us to interpret an unknown language [Wittgenstein]
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To communicate, language needs agreement in judgment as well as definition [Wittgenstein]
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