Wittgenstein Review

Below is a list of some of the terms and ideas we have been studying. This list is intended only as a starting point for your study, not as a comprehensive guide.

Saint Augustine (1)
shopkeeper example (1)
builder language example (2 ff)
“to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life” (19)
language games (7)
meaning as use (43)
family resemblance (67)
arguments against words as names of objects (e.g 27)
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” (109-123)
relationship between thought and language (327-341)
teapot example (297)
“beetle” example (293)
“understanding” (150-155)
“pain” (246 ff)
arguments against solipsism (e.g. 24)
arguments against private language (269 ff)
Other comparisons between Wittgenstein’s views on language and knowledge and those of Plato, Descartes, John Wilkins, and Foucault are also possible.