The Prodigious Diversity of Language Games

In Steven Nadler (ed.), Wittgenstein. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 57–75 (2011)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled: Meaning as Use Language Games Mind and Matter Mathematics and Other Sciences Science, Myth, and Religion Seeing Aspects World Pictures The Inner and the Outer A Field of Diversity Further reading.

Categories

Add categories

Keywords

prodigious diversity of language games   Wittgenstein's Blue Book, revealing ‐ his move philosophically, since completing the Tractatus   Wittgenstein, and Mauthner's conception of philosophy ‐ as critique of language   Blue Book, and Wittgenstein's retreat ‐ ethical and existential preoccupations of the Tractatus   Blue Book, and question of “What is the meaning of a word” ‐ Tractatus conception of meaning   language games, something new being said about language ‐ logical atomism of the Tractatus   language games, not incomplete parts of language ‐ “languages complete in themselves”   “language game” that activities ‐ being governed by rules, distinguished by specific rules   Wittgenstein, disputing Russell's logicism in the Tractatus ‐ mathematics, a unified undertaking   world pictures, people seeing the world differently ‐ from the way in which modern human beings, come to see it

Reprint years

ISBN(s)

9781444343311   9781405118477

DOI

10.1002/9781444343311.ch4

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,497

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Language‐Games.Jaakko Hintikka - 1977 - Dialectica 31 (3‐4):225-245.
Ethics and Relativism in Wittgenstein.Christian Helmut Wenzel - 2012 - Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society 20:348-350.
Wittgenstein. Playing on the Edges of Language.Francesco Valagussa - 2013 - Aisthesis: Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico 6 (1):291-305.
Wittgenstein and Language Games: Getting Back to the Rough Ground.Alireza Salehi Nejad - 2014 - Raleigh, NC: LuLu.
Wittgenstein on the Limits of Language.Hans Sluga - 2023 - In Jens Pier (ed.), Limits of Intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein. Routledge.
Families and Resemblances.Hans Sluga - 2011 - In Steven Nadler (ed.), Wittgenstein. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 76–94.
Wittgenstein's Language‐games.Max Black - 1979 - Dialectica 33 (3‐4):337-353.
Wittgenstein on language and rules.Norman Malcolm - 1989 - Philosophy 64 (January):5-28.
"Let us imagine...": Wittgenstein's Invitation to Philosophy.Beth Savickey - 2015 - Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4 (2):98-115.
4 Playing well.David Egan - 2013 - In Emily Ryall (ed.), The philosophy of play. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 54.
The undiscovered Wittgenstein: the twentieth century's most misunderstood philosopher.John Webber Cook - 2005 - Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books.
Wittgenstein and Mauthner’s Critique of Language. 박정식 - 2018 - Journal of the New Korean Philosophical Association 93:107-126.
Essays on Wittgenstein.Elmer Daniel Klemke - 1971 - Urbana,: University of Illinois Press.
Wittgenstein's language.Timothy Binkley - 1973 - The Hague,: M. Nijhoff.
Forms of Life.Peter Hacker - 2015 - Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4:1-20.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-06-15

Downloads
6 (#1,467,817)

6 months
4 (#799,256)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Hans Sluga
University of California, Berkeley

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references