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language-games and forms of life  

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  • This entry introduces the later Wittgenstein's core ideas about language-games and forms of life and reviews in some detail their various aspects. These two notions, along with the related one of rule following (see separate entry on this topic), have been particularly important during the earlier phases of the philosophy of the social sciences in the English-speaking world. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Language-Games and Forms of Life]

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