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Philosophical Investigations
The posthumous work in which meaning is located in use within a practice, and in which no rule can guarantee its own application.
- Territories
- Knowing
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. Oxford: Blackwell, 1953.
Book · Blackwell · 1953
Interpretation
Written in numbered remarks rather than chapters; references to it are conventionally by remark number (§) rather than page.
Provenance
is the origin of
- Meaning is useClaim
Developed through the rule-following remarks.
related to
- Ludwig WittgensteinPerson
Wittgenstein is the book's author.