Philosophy of Language

Philosophical Investigations

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

1953

Published posthumously, Philosophical Investigations is a sustained attack on the assumptions of the Tractatus and of traditional philosophy alike. Meaning is not a hidden logical form but a use within a form of life. Language games, family resemblance, the private language argument, and the critique of rule-following together dismantle the picture of mind as an inner realm and language as its mirror.