The Language Game: How Wittgenstein’s Ideas Can Revolutionize AI Skills Training
“Understanding a sentence means understanding a language. Understanding a language means understanding the form of life to which it belongs.” — Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, yet also one of the least understood. That very paradox is very Wittgensteinian.
He can be intimidating to read. His work covers a variety of complex concepts and he writes in an aphoristic, almost mystical style. Check out the opening to his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus:
Wittgenstein discusses concepts that he later tells the reader cannot possibly be discussed with any substance. He aims for the purest precision, yet all too often bewilders with his selection of words.
“We are unable to give any account of the connection between ‘rule’ and ‘application,’ because we can describe this connection only by using the…
