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Wittgenstein's had a poignant and simple conception of words as bags for meaning. We can put meaning into them, and take it out, and put different meanings ins
by uplifter 4y ago
Wittgenstein's had a poignant and simple conception of words as bags for meaning. We can put meaning into them, and take it out, and put different meanings instead, again and again. They've always been variable in meaning, and its difficult to say any two people, let alone cultures from different eras, will impart the same meaning to a term.
- lapcat 4y ago> its difficult to say any two people, let alone cultures from different eras, will impart the same meaning to a term This actually sounds like the exact opposite of Wittgenstein, who argued against the idea of a "private language".
- uplifter 4y agoYou may be right, I'm no expert on his work. Though one thing I do recall is that he had different professional periods, in which he had very different conceptions, or at least approaches, to philosophy; so perhaps that resolves the discrepancy?