...Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and you know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about. —Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations §203; my emphasis. 1 HE AIM OF THIS BOOK is to articulate...

..."language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about." Finding le mot juste means rejecting needless adjectives. It preface means rejecting the practice of...

...Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about (Wittgenstein 1958a: 82e). Man speaks. We speak when we are awake and we speak in our dreams. We are...

...Wittgenstein described language as a maze: "You approach from one side and know your way about: you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about." If we follow the N word into the labyrinth, where will it lead? It may point the way to outlandish...

..."language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about."37 Memory, which on the surface appears as a matter of time, proves on these accounts to be...

...little squares ..." but to a "labyrinth of paths": "you come from one side and know where you are; you come to the same place from another side and no longer know the way." (Wittgenstein 1958). Inverting the comparison, ie taking language as the model of comprehensibility,...