Hi David,
Use 'language game' in the post in both senses. Discussion of colour, especially in design is a highly rule driven language activity AND a false construct that if people think about it they realise.
Discussing theory-making with academics I generally take a post-positivist stance (and more Popper than Kuhn). A clue is the title of my PhD, 'Social, Ethical and Environmental Factors in Engineering Design Theory: A Post-Positivist Approach'. It’s a long time ago and things move on but that’s in there somewhere.
Cheers,
Terry
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Terry,
I don’t want to be picky but…
You use the term ‘language game’ in the context of ‘pretending’.
Wittgenstein developed the term 'language game’ to describe one aspect of our use of language. He used the term ‘game' likening our use of language to that of a football team following the rules of football in the games they played. He was not talking about ‘pretending' to play football but rather that the language games we share were analogous to the rules for playing a game of football. If you break the rules, the referee gives you a yellow card and if you continue to break the rules you get a red card and you are sent off. There is no pretending in either football or academic discourse.
As an aside to my aside, the phrase I suggested might describe your thinking was ‘logical positivist’ not positivist. Logical positivists in Vienna tried to co opt Wittgenstein as their philosophical hero, after they read the Tractatus, but he did not accept them. They were inspired by Wittgenstein’s thought. He was not inspired by their thinking and would have nothing to do with them. I suspect that the Wittgenstein of the Philosophical Investigations would have had even less in common with the logical positivists.
Warm regards,
David
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