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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Applying</span> == '''Modeling 'The Language Game' (How meaning changes with context):''' <syntaxhighlight lang="python"> def define_word(word, context): """ Wittgenstein: 'Meaning is Use'. """ meanings = { ("water", "Chemistry"): "H2O, a chemical compound.", ("water", "Thirsty person"): "The thing I need to survive right now!", ("water", "Poet"): "The mirror of the soul, flowing toward the sea.", } return meanings.get((word, context), "Meaning depends on the game you are playing.") # The word is the same, but the 'Truth' is different: print(define_word("water", "Chemistry")) print(define_word("water", "Poet")) </syntaxhighlight> ; 20th Century Landmarks : '''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)''' β Wittgenstein's attempt to solve ALL of philosophy in 75 pages (he later decided he was wrong). : '''Being and Nothingness (1943)''' β Sartre's massive book on freedom, written while he was in the French Resistance against the Nazis. : '''The Second Sex (1949)''' β Simone de Beauvoir's book that launched modern Feminism: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." : '''The Turing Test (1950)''' β When philosophy merged with computer science to ask: "Can a machine think?" </div> <div style="background-color: #8B4500; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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