On Language Games

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“It is the view of the present author that Wittgenstein’s basic language-games are all covertly circular. Their teaching situations presuppose an understanding of the meanings of, for example, duration, potency, number, and so on, that they are held to teach, and throw no light on them at all. The ultimate transcendentals involved in our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world remain as unassailably problematic, and as antinomic as ever.”  Kant and the Transcendental Object, p 376.