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This book notes that a particular mental image of a cube does not force a method of projection upon us, but only suggests one. This book responds to a question posed about the meaning of the word “five” by instead shifting the focus to its use by a shopkeeper. This book uses examples of sets of four arrows and a grid of colored squares in a series of examples that may only share a (*) “family resemblance” to each other. This book includes a scenario in which builder A and assistant B communicate with the terms “block” and “slab” (-5[1])as the first of a series of “language games.” This book disputes the logical atomism of its author’s earlier Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. For 10 points, name this seminal text in the philosophy of language by Ludwig Wittgenstein. (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Philosophical Investigations [or Philosophische Untersuchungen]
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