"What is the meaning of a word?
Let us attack this question, first, what is an explanation of the meaning of a word; what does the explanation of a word look like?
The way this question helps us in analagous to the way the question "how do we measure length?", "what is meaning?", "what is the number one?" etc., produce us in a mental cramp. We feel that we can't point to anything in reply to them and yet ought to point to something. (We are up against one of the great sources of philisophical bewilderment : a substantive makes us look for a thing that corresponds to it.)
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue and Brown Books, p. 1












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