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'The Statesman', 'Lectures 1930-32 (student notes)' and 'No Understanding without Explanation'
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2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition
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To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato]
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No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato]
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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes
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Words of the same kind can be substituted in a proposition without producing nonsense [Wittgenstein]
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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / b. Category mistake as syntactic
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Talking nonsense is not following the rules [Wittgenstein]
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Grammar says that saying 'sound is red' is not false, but nonsense [Wittgenstein]
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