Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (/ˈvɪtɡənʃtaɪn, -staɪn/ VIT-gən-s(h)tyne; Austrian German: [ˈluːdvɪɡ ˈjoːsɛf ˈjoːhan ˈvɪtɡn̩ʃtaɪn]; 26 April 1889 – 29...
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concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and philanthropist Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein. Karl Wittgenstein's grandfather was...
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Adolf Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg-Berleburg (German: Ludwig Adolf Peter Fürst zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg; Russian: Пётр Христианович...
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Philosophical Investigations (category Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein)
philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, published posthumously in 1953. Philosophical Investigations is divided into two parts, consisting of what Wittgenstein calls...
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five-fingered pianist. He was an older brother of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein was born in Vienna, the fourth son and seventh of the eight...
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Stonborough-Wittgenstein (19 September 1882 – 27 September 1958) was a sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the pianist Paul Wittgenstein and a...
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philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, to help with the design. In the end, he became more author than helper. In November 1925 Stonborough-Wittgenstein commissioned...
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Gottlob Frege (redirect from Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege)
(1858–1932), Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), and, to some extent, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) introduced his work to later generations of philosophers...
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Certainty (section Ludwig Wittgenstein – 20th century)
presupposes certainty. Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, #115 On Certainty is a series of notes made by Ludwig Wittgenstein just prior to his death...
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (redirect from Proposition 7 (Wittgenstein))
only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that was published during his lifetime. The project had a broad goal:...
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Ludwig Adolf Friedrich, 2nd Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg (8 June 1799 – 20 June 1866), from 1861 Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn...
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House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, an old German noble family. He is the younger son of Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and...
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Language game (philosophy) (category Ludwig Wittgenstein)
developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. Wittgenstein argued that...
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Game (section Ludwig Wittgenstein)
oldest known games. Look up game in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ludwig Wittgenstein is well known in the history of philosophy for having addressed the...
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Meaning (philosophy) (section Ludwig Wittgenstein)
development of a wide range of philosophical tools. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was originally an ideal language philosopher, following the influence...
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Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg was one of several imperial counties and later principalities ruled by the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein. Most of the former county...
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Analytic philosophy (section Early Wittgenstein)
development are Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Other important figures in its history include Franz Brentano, the...
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Logical atomism (section Wittgenstein's principles)
held that the early works of his Austrian-born pupil and colleague, Ludwig Wittgenstein, defend a version of logical atomism, though he went on to reject...
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G. E. M. Anscombe (section On Wittgenstein)
philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Anscombe was a student of Ludwig Wittgenstein and became an authority on his work and edited and translated many...
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was a friend, collaborator, and lover of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Francis Skinner was born in 1912 in Kensington, London, England...
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(1882–1958), philanthropist Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961), concert pianist Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher The earliest known family members are the...
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Georg Cantor (redirect from Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor)
Poincaré and later from Hermann Weyl and L. E. J. Brouwer, while Ludwig Wittgenstein raised philosophical objections; see Controversy over Cantor's theory...
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Occam's razor (section Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Schleiermacher Karl C F Krause Georg W F Hegel Thomas Carlyle William Whewell Ludwig Feuerbach Søren Kierkegaard Karl Marx Albrecht Ritschl Afrikan Spir 1880...
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Otto Weininger (section Influence on Wittgenstein)
for use by the Nazi regime. Weininger had a strong influence on Ludwig Wittgenstein, August Strindberg, and, via his lesser-known work Über die letzten...
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October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy...
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language Saul Kripke in which he contends that the central argument of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations centers on a skeptical rule-following...
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Saul Kripke (section Wittgenstein)
Kripke also gave an original reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein, known as "Kripkenstein", in his Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. The book contains...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein considered his chief contribution to be in the philosophy of mathematics, a topic to which he devoted much of his work between 1929...
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Linguistic turn (section Russell and Wittgenstein)
and played a weighty role in his early work in logical atomism. Ludwig Wittgenstein, an associate of Russell, was one of the progenitors of the linguistic...
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ISBN 9780691120881. Malcolm, Norman; Von Wright, G.H.; Wittgenstein, Ludwig (2001). Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. Oxford University Press. p. 45. ISBN 0-19-924759-5...
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