"for many years unceasingly practiced on my thoughts. I am indebted to this stimulus for the most consequential ideas in this book".

Content

The book begins with a quotation from Johann Nestroy's play Der Schützling: "The trouble about progress is that it always looks much greater than it really is" (translation from revised fourth edition).

Language games

Wittgenstein first mentions games in section 3 of Philosophical Investigations and then develops this discussion

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