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1Familiy Resemblance and ContextIn Herbert Hrachovec & Jakub Mácha (eds.), Platonism. Contributions of the 43rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Alws. pp. 64-66. 2022.When Wittgenstein introduces the notion of family resemblance in the PI, he claims that family expressions like ‘games’ are applied to things in a very particular way. Speakers do not point to some characteristics found in all games, but, instead, call a thing ‘game’ because it shares some characteristics with some other things already called ‘game’. Contextualists like Charles Travis argue that this supports a contextual theory of meaning. According to Travis, when speakers point to different c…Read more
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Wittgensteins Begriff der Familienähnlichkeit. Interpretationen von 1960 bis heuteIn Dennis Sölch & Bernard Ritter (eds.), Wittgenstein und die Philosophiegeschichte, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 376-429. 2021.
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