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1958). Wittgenstein also distinguished himself from most twentieth-century English-speaking philosophers by having had quite an interesting life; see Ray Monk's wonderful biography, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (New York: Free Press, Maxwell Macmillan International, 1990). 3 Reported by Norman Malcolm (1958: 65). "A central idea of his philosophy, the notion of a `language-game', apparently had its genesis in this incident." 4 Horwich (1998) offers a similar if less well worked-out picture. Unlike Brandom, he emphasizes that individual expressions have meanings: a given expression's "meaning property" is "its use being governed by such-and-such regularity--or, more specifically, the property that every use of the word is explained in terms of the fact that we accept certain specified sentences containing it" (p. 6, italics original). For each word, there is a "basic use regularity." Examples: We tend