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 | | But Friedrich Waismann, a onetime follower of Wittgenstein, would answer the question with a qualified "No." Waismann's criticisms of Wittgenstein rely to a great extent on Wittgenstein's own dicta that in language games the meaning of words, at least for a large number of classes, is the use of the words (PI, para. |
| | Waismann's position on the intuitive nature of the concept of infinity and its grammatical structure within mathematical language, is, on the whole, certainly more satisfying and, I believe, more true to the language game of mathematics as it is played by mathematicians. |
| | Waismann objects that if this were true, it would be impossible for me to recognize the proof as a proof of the theorem in question. |
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