Only, I dunno, I'd call "entailed meaning" or something like that, meaning that actually does require the surrounding context to make sense of. Things that require inference, thought, putting things together. — Wosret
Not everything is like that though. A baby monitor works, because regardless of context, "I'm being harmed or terrified" noises are the same regardless of the surrounding context. — Wosret
That's the point though, nothing can be said to be related to anything else, except through how we identify them. So if I think that one thing is related to another, then it is related, by virtue of that very thought which relates them. — Metaphysician Undercover
So W used a philosophical doctrine to conclude that philosophy is a waste if time. Self-undermining? — Mongrel
However, when applying the concept of language games to "language games," one of the first things we're going to do is deny that "language games" expresses any concept. — Mongrel
When using meta-linguistic terminology... — sime
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