Book Title: Applied Philosophy of Anekanta
Author(s): Shashiprajna Samni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati Institute

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________________ star' is a word, which contain non-equivalent equalities. It contains both the meanings viz. morning and evening star. Frege says that they are not equivalent, but they were resident as meaning in the same word 'venus'.Likewise let us take an illustration of a gaskette, there are many varieties of gaskettes in the market, namely automobile, plumbing, pressure cooker gaskette, etc., so salesman seldom gets confused with the same word denoting different meanings. In such cases a man can understand the meaning of th. particular word having varied implications on the basis of the context and on the basis of the intention of the speaker. Later Wittgenstein changes his view and states that there is not any 'the meaning' as such, it changes according to the context and the form of life. Wittgenstein in his text, 'Philosophical Investigations' says that words do not have round meaning as we find them in use in ordinary language. According to him, language is like a game. It is an activity which uses words as-tools .Words are not labels for things . A game is not a game unless played: A language is not a language unless used. Meanings of words are determined by the game we play, by the way we use it for some purpose. Wittgenstein uses the metaphor of playing chess to explain the language game. His first employment of a game appears in a conversation at Schlick's house in June, 1930 in a discussion of formalism on mathematics. Here, he first compares language with playing a game like chess. According to him, the difference between the game of chess and the syntax of a language is, “solely in their application”. In his 'Philosophical Investigations', he rightly quotes, “the meaning of word is its use in the language. That is the meanings of the word is determined by the way we make use of it. In order to Ludwig Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations. U.K.: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 3rd edn., 2005, p. 43. 111

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