"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote"
"For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language."
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Source: Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 43), 1953.
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