Wittgenstein

"When we are puzzled philosophically, Wittgenstein argued, what we stand in need of is not additional information, but a clearer view of what lies before us" (237). Wittgenstein has interesting ideas about society and structures within it such as language and religion. He believes that all words operate as names and refer to objects. This is problematic when we encounter words to which we cannot connect objects, such as god. I agree that this is a problem. The way that we think has a lot to do with language and the ways that we use words to describe and explain religion mirror the way that we comprehend it as a part of society. "If we say that religious belief is necessarily confused, we have failed, philosophical, to mirror its practices" (240).