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Ordinary Language Philosophy

Oxford philosophy of the 1940s-60s: Austin, Ryle, Strawson. Philosophical problems arise from misunderstanding how language ordinarily works. 'Don't ask for the meaning, ask for the use.' Later Wittgenstein's inheritance.

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Late Wittgenstein concept

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953, posthumous). Repudiated his own Tractatus. Language games, family resemblance, rule-following paradox, private language argument. Meaning is use. The beetle in the box.