the late wittgenstein - meaning is use

positivism manifesto

theory of the declarative sentence, anything that can be said can be said clearly or not at all

language as a picture of the world

each atomic prop tells us about the world or logical fact

kinds of meaningful prop - tractatus

deductive and inductive facts

language as a game - philosophical investigations

language as a set of social practices that cant be described by a universal kind of algorithm

definition of a game

cannot be defined in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions, they dont have one form

meaning of a word

as use in the language

family resemblance

language games are part of a broader context, a form of life

the concept of games points at the rule governed characte

city

it is never complete, we always add and change things, new vocabulary, old areas get changed over time, there is no underlying uniform structure

private language argument

for an utterance to be meaningful it must be possible in principle to subject it to public standards and criteria of correctness

a … is not a genuine meaningfull rule governed language