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“I have wanted to show by means of language-games the vague way in which we use ‘language’,…”
“I have wanted to show by means of language-games the vague way in which we use ‘language’,…”

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“I have wanted to show by means of language-games the vague way in which we use ‘language’, ‘proposition’, ‘sentence’. There are many things, such as orders, which we may or may not call propositions and not only one game can be called language. Language-games are a clue to the understanding of logic.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures: 1932-1935

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