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Philosophical Investigations

Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein · 5 quotes · Language, Use, Philosophical

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“When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”