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How Metaphors Alter the World-Picture – One Theme in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty — Joose Järvenkylä
pictorial form of the widest imaginable context. Also
metaphors can be seen to create a picture which
sometimes replaces our world-picture. Therefore
Wittgenstein himself gives us a picture trying to persuade
us to realize that philosophy works with pictures and by
changing them we also change our understanding of the
world.
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