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Philosophical Investigations
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Critique on his own previous work (tractatus). Very influential in field of philosophy.

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19. . . . And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

40. Let us first discuss this point of the argument: that a word has no meaning if nothing corresponds to it. . . .

47. But what are the simple constituent parts of which reality is composed?--What are the simple constituent parts of a chair?--The bits of wood of which it is made? Or the molecules, or the atoms?--"Simple" means: not composite. And here the point is: in what sense 'composite'? It makes no se
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Undoubtedly the main dilemma in PI is Rule-following problem and also the possibility and quality of Communication between people. ''you regard it much too much as a matter of course that one can communicate anything to anyone.'' §363 ...more
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