The Blue and Brown Books

By L. Wittgenstein. 1958

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Games, Motivation, and Learning: A Research and Practice Model (2002, background): “Wittgenstein (1953, 1958) admitted failure in defining the essential characteristics of games, noting that there are no properties that are common to all games and that games belong in the same semantic category only because they bear a “family resemblance” to one another.”
Habeas Corpus: The Sense of Ownership of One ' s Own Body (2007, background): “They defi ned it as a ‘ feeling of estrangement between the patient and one of his hands ’ . Since then, there has been a widespread confusion in the literature between the Alien Hand and the Anarchic Hand, which are both often coined under the single term of ‘ Alien Hand Sign ’ ( Marchetti and Del”
Agency, simulation and self-identification (2004, background): “2 In The Blue Book, Wittgenstein (1958) distinguishes between the self as object and the self as subject and gives as an example of a mistaken identification of the self as object the case of a man in an accident who feels a pain in his arm, sees his neighbour’s broken arm at his side and…”