“Well, what does “good” mean anyway…? As Wittgenstein suggested, “good,” like “game,” has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: “meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation.””

Source: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969), P. 152.

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