What does a philosopher born in the 19th Century have to say about software design? More than you might think, particularly his ideas about family resemblance. Wittgenstein used the subject of "games" to illustrate an idea. We'll start with a counter-example. Suppose we operate with the then-prevailing notion that words are defined like sets in axiomatic set theory. Then there is a decision procedure that will let us decide whether something is a member of the set "
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Wittgenstein and Design