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When philosophers use a word—'knowledge,' 'being,' 'object,' 'I,' 'proposition,' 'name,' and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself; is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?...What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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