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@David-Elias Kuenstle David-Elias Kuenstle on 3 Dec 2015 852 bytes Add summary of Wittgenstein video
# Wittgenstein video

* metapher language = sort of picture is missleading
  * hello, perhaps, ... have no picture
* lot's of different ways to describe relationship world-language
  * what do with language = language games
  * lot's of different language games
  * meaning of a world is the way it is used in a language game
* questions in philosophy
  * arrise because mix up of language games
  * example: they talk about *soul* like a physical object
  * philosopher should sort out the language games
  * philosophy can not question language games
* private language
  * there cant be one
  * word use because of culture
  * "we speak as we do, because of what we do"
  * speaking is public affair
  * Descartes started with lonely self with only it's own sensations
    * Wittenstein want's to overturn this old model and start with the culture.