...course of these long and involved journeyings. (p. ix) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new...with straight regular streets and uniform houses. (§ 18) For sixteen years the author of Philosophical Investigations wandered through the streets and...

...about "regions of language," and again invokes the analogy between language and an ancient city: "a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new...boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses."1 Some regions of the city are separate and clearly distinct. Wittgenstein suggests that we...

...fabric. Wittgenstein once compared language to a city: Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new...with straight regular streets and uniform houses. 17 Such a city might include streets, alleys, highways, and even some walls, but there would be no...

...extended period of time. Note his famous remark that Our language can be seen as an ancient city : a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various 22 In this connection see Bernstein's 'Wittgenstein's Three Languages,' Review of Metaphysics XV (1961),...

...compares language with an ancient city: "a maze of little streets and squares. of old and new houses. or houses with additions from various periods: and this...surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight rectangular streets and uniform houses."127 Secondly. Wittgenstein grounds his notion of language-games...

...streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an old city, a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new...various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of modern sections with straight regular streets and uniform houses.' If we extend this image to culture,...

...Wittgenstein uses, though for quite different purposes, the image of the ancient city of language, 'a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new...of houses with additions from various periods', and speaks of 'the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus' as 'suburbs of...

...games, obeying different rules. Wittgenstein writes: "Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new...boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses."128 And to drive home that the principle of unitotality — or synthesis under the authority...

...posing a threat to it. Wittgenstein once wrote that "our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new...boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses."12 In a recent discussion of akrasia and self-deception, Amelie Rorty has used this same metaphor...

...languages of mathematicians, scientists and other specialists — with 'an ancient city'. Such a city is 'a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new...of new boroughs with straight regular streets and new houses.' 6 The only way of finding one's way about in such a city is to follow an experienced guide...