Sentence examples for a language game from inspiring English sources

Even when Chris slaughters Mary, it feels like a language game.

Each drawing and each group could be a colour chart, an eye test or a language game.

The script is by Tom Stoppard, who, of all people, should have thrilled to the seductions of a language game, yet even he is confounded by the indigestible.

In her book "Critical Play," the artist and game designer Mary Flanagan points to the Roman Empire's Sator-Rotas rebus as one of the oldest known examples of a language game.

He had the intellectual moves and literary tricks diagrammed in advance: the raised-eyebrow, mock-earnest references to old TV shows and comic books; the acknowledgment that truth was a language game.

At a time when philosophy was becoming obsessed with understanding the minutiae of supposedly ordinary language, she was unpersuaded by colleagues who tried to avoid basic questions of truth by holding that all claims were internal to a "language game".

Wittgenstein created a thought experiment (one of many that) he called a "language-game" (something anyone can join).

To call religion a language-game is to insist that certain sorts of practices – church attendence, praying, lighting candles, going on pilgrimage – are the background against which religious claims make sense.

Others (see Phillips 1970, for example), following Wittgenstein, have tried to give an explanation of the strangeness of religious language by invoking the idea of a language-game.

These issues will be discussed in Sections 4 and 5. Inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein's idea of a language-game, Hintikka (1968) introduced the basic framework of what came to be known as game-theoretical semantics (a.k.a. GTS).

It is here that we might pick up Robert Brandom's suggestion, following Sellars, that we should think of the existence of inferential processes or processes of reasoning as presupposing participation within social communicative interactions in which the making of an assertion is considered as a move in a language-game of the "giving and asking for reasons".