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Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Philosophical puzzles arise because we tend to mix up one language game with another. For example, people puzzle over the nature of something they call the "soul". But this may just be because They're thinking of the soul along the lines of a physical object. They're confusing one way of talking with another
Philosophical puzzles arise because we tend to mix up one language game with another. For example, people puzzle over the nature of something they call the "soul". But this may just be because They're thinking of the soul along the lines of a physical object. They're confusing one way of talking with another
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Mutters sighs Philosophical puzzles arise because we tend
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to mix up one language game with another
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For example people puzzle over the nature of something they call the soul
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But this may just be because they're thinking
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of the soul along the lines of a physical object
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They're confusing one way of talking with another
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A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sk
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