{"id":4476,"date":"2018-10-07T00:59:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2018-10-07T01:11:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T05:11:24","slug":"philosophical-investigations-sections-65-78-ludwig-wittgenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/cognitive-psychology\/philosophical-investigations-sections-65-78-ludwig-wittgenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical Investigations, Sections 65-78 (Ludwig Wittgenstein)"},"content":{"rendered":"
-These phenomena have no one thing in common which makes us use the same word for all, they are all related to one another in many different ways.<\/p>\n
What is common to all games?<\/u><\/p>\n
-Board-games, card games, ball games, Olympic games<\/p>\n
-We see an overlapping network of similarities, sometimes overall similarities, sometimes similarities of detail<\/p>\n
-We can think of these similarities as family resemblances<\/p>\n
Why do we call something a number?<\/u><\/p>\n
-Because it has a direct relationship with several things that have been called a number and an indirect relationship with other things we call the same name<\/p>\n
-Analogy of fibers and threads<\/p>\n
-The concept of number: the logical sum of these individual interrelated concepts<\/p>\n
The Concept of Game<\/u><\/p>\n
-A concept with blurred edges<\/p>\n
-Frege compares a concept to an area and says that an area with vague boundaries cannot be called an area at all<\/p>\n
-In such difficulty, always ask yourself:<\/p>\n
-How did we learn the meaning of this word?<\/p>\n
-From what sort of examples?<\/p>\n
-In what language-games?<\/p>\n
-It will then be easier to see that there is a family of meanings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
General form of propositions and language -These phenomena have no one thing in common which makes us use the same word for all, they are all related to one… Continue Reading Philosophical Investigations, Sections 65-78 (Ludwig Wittgenstein)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}