Can you guys breakdown this very long passage? [closed]
The idea that Wittgenstein is opposed to the whole style of thinking that would approach, for example, the problem of understanding how language functions by trying to construct a theory that elucidates what the meaning of expressions consists in goes against the idea that he is merely out to oppose a particular account of meaning.
Solution 1:
This sentence is comprised of 55 words, and would be hard for most readers to parse. Microsoft Word gives it a Flesch-Kincaid Grade level of 24.7.
I have placed one of the clauses in parentheses and nested the clauses.
- The idea that Wittgenstein is opposed to the whole style of thinking that would approach
- (for example, the problem of understanding how language functions
- by trying to construct a theory that elucidates what the meaning of expressions consists in)
- (for example, the problem of understanding how language functions
- goes against the idea
- that he is merely out to oppose a particular account of meaning.