What is a "language game"? Does Wittgenstein ever attempt to give a simple explanation?
>>1093730
Do you know the builder/slab example from Philosophical Investigations?
>>1093748
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know it, but I feel like I'd have a really hard time explaining it to someone who doesn't get it.
>>1093766
One of the builders says to the other:
"Please bring me a slab"
or he says
"Slab!"
Does the meaning of these two different utterances differ? An analytic philosophy autist could talk all day about how their syntactic forms differ, but Wittgenstein's claim is that the two don't differ in their meaning here because they have the same role in the language game between the two builders.
>>1093777
And just to add to that, that this language game between the two builders can only exist within the context of the activity they are already engaged in, and therefore doesn't have its own transcendental existence autonomous of such activities. This is why Witty is often interpreted as a nominalist.
>>1093777
Yes, but that one example doesn't cover the extent of language games. Like, it provides one example, but you also must discuss the role of definition, the role of logic, argumentation and so forth, to really grasp how he uses it.
I'm stuck where I don't think it's possible to communicate what Wittgenstein means in any compact form, any new comprehension of language games must involve discussion
>>1093787
Well, if my explanation wasn't good enough for you fine.
>>1093809
>What is a "language game"? Does Wittgenstein ever attempt to give a simple explanation?
No, I'm pretty sure there was nothing wrong with my post and you're just being a cunt. Wittgenstein only really talks about language games in terms of examples in his entire oeuvre and if that's not good enough for you, you can fuck off.
>>1093819
You first.
>>1093831
Cool discussion.
>>1093836
>do you know the slab discussion
>yes
><oversimplified but accurate version of the slab discussion>
>not what i meant
><intense anger>
i clearly didn't want what he gave me, don't know what the point of his emotional bullshit is.
