Sex Lies and First Ladies A Modest (Wittgensteinian) Proposal

Southwest Review, mailed to Willard Spiegelman,84, no. 1 (1998): 30-42.

115. When philosophers use a word—“knowledge,” “being,” “object,” “I,” “proposition’, ‘name”—and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used this way in the language-game which is its original home?
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