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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
language-game
philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven

Wittgenstein
1993 film directed by Derek Jarman
family resemblance
group of things connected by a series of overlapping similarities, where no one feature is common to all of the things
private language argument
argument by Wittgenstein that the concept of a language understandable by only a single individual is incoherent
picture theory of language
linguistic theory
form of life
philosophical concept of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein's rod
geometrical problem involving a sliding rod driven by a crank