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A critique of Suits’s (alleged) counterexample to Wittgenstein’s position on the definability of ‘game’

Ralph H. JohnsonDepartment of Philosophy, The University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Dennis HudeckiDepartment of Humanities, Brescia University College, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 89-104 | Published online: 08 Oct 2019

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