[lit-ideas] Re: Though Maybe Not For All
- From: Eric Yost <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:34:09 -0500
Stop me if you've heard this one before, but...
When Ludwig Wittgenstein writes, PI/43,
"For a _large_ class of cases - though not for all - ....the meaning
of a word is its use in the language".
1. Can someone expand on the character of the _large_ class? And why
it is large?
2. What is the character of the other, presumably _smaller_?, class?
And why?
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Wittgenstein could have been hedging, or . . .
A man walks into a bar and asks Wittgenstein
whether his statement above is true of a rebus,
a chemical equation,
or the score of Penderecki's String Quartet #1.
Wittgenstein is too drunk to answer.
"And what about names?" the man asks.
Then the talking parrot on the bartender's shoulder says
W was merely making room for exceptions, or just meant "in the majority
of cases."
"Those beers come in large cases," mutters Wittgenstein
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