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“The Meaning of a Word Lies in Its Use.”

Authors: Ningombam Bupenda Meitei

Ludwig Wittgenstein in his later days’ Philosophical Investigations which has come as a criticism to his own prior work namely Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , discusses about the relevance of the context in which a word has been used in order to understand the meaning of the word rather than going by the notion of an Ideal Language in the form of a fixed meaning picture theory of a name being labelled against an ostensive body or object in which there is one-to-one correspondence between the simple and the name which is advocated in Tractatus.

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