Easy-to-assemble Homes
Scott Adams's idea of homes built from blocks that poor people could put together under supervision perhaps is a very tiny part of home construction. The opening of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations proposes a model of language "Let us imagine a language for which the description given by Augustine is right. The language is meant to serve for communication between a builder A and an assistant B. A is building with building-stones; there are blocks, pillars, slabs and beams. B has to pass the stones, and that in the order in which A needs them. For this purpose they use a language consisting of the words ``block'', ``pillar'', ``slab'', ``beam''. A calls them out;--B brings the stone which he has learnt to bring at such-and-such a call.--Conceive this as a complete primitive language." Wittgenstein returns to this for a hundred pages to show that it's a trivial part of language, a model for almost nothing that happens