Trevor Burnham

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Language Games

June 24th, 2010

From Paul Graham’s “How to Do Phi­los­o­phy”:

Wittgen­stein is pop­u­larly credited with the idea that most philo­soph­i­cal con­tro­ver­sies are due to con­fu­sions over language. I’m not sure how much credit to give him. I suspect a lot of people realized this, but reacted simply by not studying phi­los­o­phy, rather than becoming phi­los­o­phy professors.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: While PG’s essays on startups are his most influ­en­tial works, his more abstract writings are actually more incisive. They deserve a much wider readership.

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