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What does an expression do in an exchange? Its established use permits correction, not unrestricted private interpretation.
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Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 63
Does language always work like a picture?
Wittgenstein’s early account treats a sentence as a picture of a situation; his later work looks at words in use, where requests, reports and corrections do different jobs. The lesson connects meaning with use without concluding that words can mean anything.