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  <title><![CDATA[Philosophical Investigations: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition]]></title>
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  <default_description> Ludwig Wittgenstein's &lt;I&gt;Philosophical Investigations&lt;I&gt; presents his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning. When first published in 1953, it immediately entered the centre of philosophical debate, and achieved a classic status it has retained ever since.  &lt;P&gt;This revised German&amp;ndash;English edition is published on the fiftieth anniversary of Wittgenstein's death. It incorporates final revisions by G. E. M. Anscombe (1919&amp;ndash;2001) to her original English translation.   &lt;P&gt;.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[o my crap, what a tortured soul Ludwig Wittgenstein was.  this guy stared into the impenetrable pitch blackness that was the tangled midnight jungle of his own inner existence, sharpened his machete, and plunged in, hacking and flailing and lunging wildly.  he wrestles chiefly with the concepts of l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4295554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To date the most overrated work of 20th century analytic thought (if one wishes to truly count the later Wittgenstein as an analytic).  Written in a fragmentary styled not seen in the traditional philosophical corpus since Spinoza, Wittgenstein often leaves the reader guessing at what he could possi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1748135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't possibly do <em>Philosophical Investigations</em> justice in a review. Even though I've read it several times, I don't understand more than a fraction of it. The unworthy thought does sometimes cross my mind that its author didn't understand it either, but you understand I'm just jealous because I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40066474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51052112">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, of course, one of the great books of the 20th century, and it blew my head away when I first read it.  However, I have since come to mistrust its conclusions. The central task of language is communication.  The central question in linguistics is &quot;How is it possible for one person to un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51052112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48358466">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was assembled posthumously, Wittgenstein having published very little in his lifetime.  Although usually coupled with the Tractatus, it is actually more representative of his thought and method.<br/><br/>The virtue of Wittgenstein may be that with him there is no hint of metaphysical con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48358466">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62956759">
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  <read_at>Sun May 16 00:00:00 -0700 1993</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While this book has no doubt been vastly influential in twentieth century philosophy, I am far less enamored with it today than I was studying the Philosophy of Language and Science twenty years ago in graduate school.  Thus while I am extremely grateful to this treatise in carefully extrapolating L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62956759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75453706">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for the second time two weeks ago, and I have been marinating in it since. Wittgenstein is one of those thinkers that you must chew very very slowly.  <br/><br/>I fell in love with Wittgenstein in passing - it was purely accidental.  He was mentioned as a mere footnote in a theology co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75453706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'll have to post my notes from this book someday. regardless, this book is both highly entertaining and essential at least to my own interests. i think it also bore out ray monk's characterization of what makes it difficult for some and engaging for others, which i will paraphrase as being an issue...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38811162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read this years ago, I struggled with it. Tractatus had been so beautifully efficient and lucid (wrong, but beautiful nonetheless.) Then I dove into PI and floundered. On second reading I've had a lot more peripheral material to help me grasp the ideas. What I really wish I'd had was this:<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41050198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5356657">
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    <body><![CDATA[Embodies a philosophical strategy for approaching our cognitive capacities and the world they bring us with humility and gratitude--but with a constant awareness that we cannot step outside of those capacities and the normative patterns of living which structure them. We have no authoritative perspe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5356657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wittgenstein is one of those odd ducks that somehow waddled through the usual categories.  Although thoroughly ensconced in the analytical realm (Russell had pegged him as his heir apparent, though things did not turn out as such), with the philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein somehow managed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3911023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4314136">
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    <body><![CDATA[whoa nelly, he's not kidding around using a word like &quot;investigations.&quot; there's lots of dialogue here centered around proving the intangible nature of meaning in language and the effect (although i imagine it as a kind of grip) said language has on our mental states. my favorite are the pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4314136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49139547">
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    <body><![CDATA[بيشتر  خوانندگانش  كتاباشو مي خونن و نمي فهمن ولي با همون نفهميدنشون هم حال مي كنن....زندگيش و فلسف ش مچ بود...باهاش حال مي كنم]]></body>
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    <review id="39607513">
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    <body><![CDATA[Wittgenstein repudiates his earlier theory of language as representational, and replaces it with one of 'language games', the Pragmatist idea that language is a tool, the function of which shifts according to context]]></body>
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    <review id="52322716">
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    <body><![CDATA[If your mind has been warped by philosophy, this is a life-changing book. At least it's more likely to cure you than psychotherapy...and cheaper. Watch out for lions and beetles and duck-rabbits (oh my!).]]></body>
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    <review id="21785903">
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    <body><![CDATA[Exceeding the gold standard he set in the <em>Tractatus</em>, Wittgenstein outreaches every expectation in <em>Philosophical Investigations</em> to produce what amounts to the second worst poem ever written. The first was the original manuscript of the same , which, I am told, contained two additional aphorisms.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21785903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful fun. W writes this book in isolated paragraphs that only correspond to each other sporadically. This free-form kind of writing helps both to follow W's line of thinking and to swallow the chunks. However, this is at the cost of being able to extract a theme. Perhaps this is why people have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15331513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alongside Being &amp; Time, this book is the most important work in 20th century philosophy. Ripping up the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, Wittgenstein examines the relationship between language and reality and finds that truth is a result of how we grow up in and through the specif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25251596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm interested in games.]]></body>
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