“If Some People Looked Like Elephants and Others Like Cats”: Wittgenstein on Understanding Others and Forms of Life
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عنوان ژورنال: Nordic Wittgenstein Review
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2242-248X,2194-6825
DOI: 10.15845/nwr.v4i0.3372