#Philosophical Investigations

Asking whether and how a proposition can be verified is only a special form of the question “How do you mean?” The answer is

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We can also think of the whole process of using words … as one of those games by means of which children learn their

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Words can be hard to utter: those, for example, with which one renounces something, or confesses a weakness. (Words are

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It is in language that an expectation and its fulfilment make contact.

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Naming is not yet a move in a language-game – any more than putting a piece in its place on the board is a move in chess.

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If intuition is an inner voice – how do I know *how* I am to follow it? And how do I know that it doesn’t mislead me? For if

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

_Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations_