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  1. 09-05-2005, 21:17 #1
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    Default Re: Wittgenstein and Games.

    Quote Originally Posted by Skomatth
    Stipulative definitions cannot, but lexical definitions and definitions in use (I'm using A.J. Ayer's term here) can. I'm not smart enough or familar enough with LW's work to know whether this is stipulative or not, but doesn't he even say later in the Tractatus that this is nonsense?
    He did not call it Tractatus Lexico-Philosophicus for a reason.
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