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Appendix
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Author(s): Floyd Merrell
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: What Wittgenstein calls forms of life entails human ways of concrete living within timespace contexts according to the general world-version held by a human community. It also includes what I have alluded to as playacting, which takes up a generous part of one’s waking life. Given the assumptions underlying this essay, to understand a form of life is to get a feel for the process of human interdependent, interrelated interaction. Our interacting with our other selves, others within our community, and with our physical world by way of our world-version implies our taking for granted certain processes within our form of life. This taking-for-granted in turn implies a degree of certainty. When we do what we do we just do it, often unthinkingly, as though it were as natural as could be and as though we knew exactly what we were doing.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 286-290
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English
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