{"id":4476,"date":"2018-10-07T00:59:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2018-10-07T01:11:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T05:11:24","slug":"philosophical-investigations-sections-65-78-ludwig-wittgenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/cognitive-psychology\/philosophical-investigations-sections-65-78-ludwig-wittgenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical Investigations, Sections 65-78 (Ludwig Wittgenstein)"},"content":{"rendered":"

General form of propositions and language<\/h2>\n

-These phenomena have no one thing in common which makes us use the same word for all, they are all related to one another in many different ways.<\/p>\n

What is common to all games?<\/u><\/p>\n

-Board-games, card games, ball games, Olympic games<\/p>\n

-We see an overlapping network of similarities, sometimes overall similarities, sometimes similarities of detail<\/p>\n

-We can think of these similarities as family resemblances<\/p>\n

Why do we call something a number?<\/u><\/p>\n

-Because it has a direct relationship with several things that have been called a number and an indirect relationship with other things we call the same name<\/p>\n

-Analogy of fibers and threads<\/p>\n

-The concept of number: the logical sum of these individual interrelated concepts<\/p>\n

The Concept of Game<\/u><\/p>\n

-A concept with blurred edges<\/p>\n

Frege\u2019s Concept of An Area with Vague Boundaries<\/h2>\n

-Frege compares a concept to an area and says that an area with vague boundaries cannot be called an area at all<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/h2>\n

-In such difficulty, always ask yourself:<\/p>\n

-How did we learn the meaning of this word?<\/p>\n

-From what sort of examples?<\/p>\n

-In what language-games?<\/p>\n

-It will then be easier to see that there is a family of meanings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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