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Wittgenstein at the Zoo
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!["Also people would start asking questions about the patriarchal structure of lion society that I'm just not ready to answer..."
Description: Frege and Wittgenstein are looking at a lion at the zoo.
Frege: "I will we could teach lions English, so we could talk to them."
Wittgenstein: "That's actually a fundamental misunderstanding of what language is."
Wittgenstein: "In order to communicate, we need to not only have words, but a shared understanding of the world."
Wittgenstein: "Even if a lion were to learn the words of English, we still wouldn't be able to communicate with it."
Wittgenstein: "What do lions know of our thoughts? Our social situations? What do we know of theirs?"
Wittgenstein: "Is there anything that a lion could say to us that we could possibly understand? I don't think so."
Frege: "Maybe not."
The lion: "Actually we can understand English fine, we just don't talk around the humans or they'll make us have jobs and pay rent and stuff."](http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/WittgensteinattheZoo.png)
"Also people would start asking questions about the patriarchal structure of lion society that I'm just not ready to answer..."
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