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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 "How is it possible for one person to understand another?" It is actually possible for people from quite different societies to come to understand each other. How is this possible? I do not think Wittgenstein gives a satisfactory answer to this qu
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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 Logical Positivism, at least his own version, the conclusions just didn't stand up to scrutiny all that long. However, I don’t mean to diminish this books import by suggesting that many of its conclusio
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I "read" this in the sense that most of the words have been in front of my eyes. I'm going to have to deduct a star from Herr Wittgenstein for not having written clearer English.
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