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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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There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without interest in grammar. Philology

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In my way of doing philosophy, its whole aim is to give an expression such a form that certain disquietudes disappear.

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 In my way of doing philosophy, its whole aim is to give an expression such a form that certain disquietudes disappear.

Nov 13,2021

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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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 Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Feb 21,2021

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Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

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 Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Jan 26,2021

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Grammar, in defining usage, makes divisions which are sometimes legitimate, sometimes false. For example, it divides verbs

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