Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein. (1889 – 1951). Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Noteworthy

  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921).
  • Philosophical Investigations (1953, posthumously).
  • Language Games.
  • Private Language.
  • Quietism.
  • Nonsense as communication.
  • Meaning as use.
  • Picture theory of language/meaning.
  • Elementary Propositions.
  • Wittgenstein's ladder.
  • Fideism.

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