A Response To H. O. Mounce.
Wittgenstein: "If a lion could speak, we could not understand him." (PI, p. 223) Wittgenstein bids us to be wary of trying to explain or interpret language and its use, instead of limiting ourselves – with a rigorous discipline – to describing such use as comprehensively and clearly as we can. This...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Investigations Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 287 - 290 |
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