Nope, still not getting where the 'muddle' is. Wittgenstein says that it does not make sense to ask, of our paradigms in language games, whether they ...
I don't understand the distinction you're making here, I'd be grateful if you could clarify. Wittgenstein is obviously not suggesting a method of reco...
This is how I understand paradigms also. It seems to me, if one "pulls out" the focus a bit to look at the whole section, the theme is consistently th...
Yes, that's certainly how I understand it. I think that in the same way one can take "the lump of metal" and say that it does not always play that rol...
OK, but in the context of what we've just discussed about Wittgenstein's reference to the many ways in which we check our use against samples, what is...
Thanks for the clarification, so no one's trying to to say that one can 'never' say that the Standard Metre is or is not 1m long, only that such a sta...
I've just read through this thread with interest. I've found a number of points I'd like to clarify with their respective authors, but I think it woul...
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