All of this seems eerily similar to Wittgenstein's use theory of meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_theory_of_meaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use

All of this seems eerily similar to Wittgenstein's use theory of meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_theory_of_meaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_theory_of_meaning From wikipedia: The Investigations deals largely with the difficulties of language and meaning. Wittgenstein viewed the tools of language as being fundamentally simple and he believed that philosophers had obscured this simplicity by misusing language and by asking meaningless questions. He attempted in the Investigations to make things clear: "Der Fliege den Ausweg aus dem Fliegenglas zeigen"—to show the fly the way out of the fly bottle. "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger W. Dijkstra