ABSTRACT
Wittgenstein saw the philosophical problems that concerned him as involving traps or knots that are inherent within language. In the seminars, workshops, and trainings sessions the author have conducted in the past 20 years or so, therapists most often appear to at least implicitly use a definition similar to the one Godzich offered. Freud's work offers a grand theory that can indeed be used to explain almost anything. Describing and teaching solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) practice demands that the author focus on how things are so that the trainees can learn to do SFBT. According to Wittgenstein's early work, the pictures of facts are mirrored in language to give us meaning, so that they can say truly a hippopotamus is not in the room. Philosophers, psychologists, and therapists constantly see the method of science as a model and are thus tempted to ask questions and seek answers in the way science does.
