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as a living human being. The dead body of a Dean is also denoted by the word 'Dean'. The niksepa, in fact is the selection of a particular meaning from among the meanings of a word.' Language Game and Forms of Life
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) emphasized creating an ideal language for philosophical analysis, which would be free from the ambiguities of ordinary language . This philosophical trend can be called "ideal-language analysis". During this phase, Russell and Wittgenstein sought to understand language, by using formal logic. Ludwig Wittgenstein developed a comprehensive system of logical atomism in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Here he stresses upon the meaning of any.word and he talks of logical and elementary propositions and picture theory. He thereby argues that the world is the totality of actual states of affairs and that these states of affairs can be expressed by the language of first-order predicate logic. Šo a picture of the world can be made by expressing atomic facts as atomic propositions, and linking them using logical operators. '
After completion of this book, he was convinced that his doctrines were certainly true and that the major problems of philosophy had been finally solved at least in principle and he deviated from the ordinary usage of words and coined personal terms and got in to trouble. He said, the world is made up of atomic facts ;atomic facts are facts which cannot be analysed inio more elemental facts. Here ,he concentrates on what Frege called 'reference'.
Frege says, meaning of a word is two, but the referent is one. The referent is also a word, it contains both the meanings. The same word holds two meanings within itself. The 'venus
"Laghīyastraya. gāthā-74 (svopajñavivrtih aprastutārthāpākaranat prastutārtha
vyākaraṇacca niksepahphalavān. 2 Derek Johnson. A Brief History of Philosophy:From Socrates to Derrida.
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