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#wittgenstein
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Twenty years of translating have convinced me that meaning is use
I translate from German and English into French. Every day I meet words that the dictionary claims to define and that my clients use in ways the definition doesn't cover. Heimat is the famous German case, but the ordinary words are worse.…
Started by Claire Dubois6 replies222 views -
Wittgenstein said philosophy “leaves everything as it is”. Is quietism a position, or a refusal to have one?
I translate philosophy into French for a living, and I spent this year on a new edition of a book about the Philosophical Investigations. I keep returning to §124: philosophy may not interfere with the actual use of language; it can only…
Started by Claire Dubois5 replies193 views