Philosophical Investigations
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Philosophical Investigations is a work by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, published posthumously in 1953.
Cover of the first English edition
The duck-rabbit illusion became famous when Wittgenstein used it to distinguish "seeing that" from "seeing as".
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is a 1982 book by philosopher of language Saul Kripke in which he contends that the central argument of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations ce
Philosophical Investigations
…actions conform to the expectations in the particular form of life in which one is involved. Following a rule is a social activity. Saul Kripke provides an influential discussion of Wittgenstein's remarks on rules. For Kripke, Wittgenstein's discussion of rules "may be regarded as a new form of philosophical scepticism". He…
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language