How Do We Learn a Language?
Reflections on Wittgenstein #5
In the Brown Book, Wittgenstein runs through a wide variety of situations in which language is not only learned by being used. The question is, how does one come to know that when they hear a certain set of words (or even a single word) what those words mean, or more importantly, as Wittgenstein points out, what to do n…
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