Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889–1951) Austrian philosopher. His masterwork,
Tractatus Logico-philosophicus (1921), influenced
logical positivism, arguing the strict relationships between language and the physical world. After 1929, he criticized this hypothesis in his Cambridge lectures, published posthumously as
Philosophical Investigations (1953). He claimed language was a conventional ‘game’, where meaning was affected more by context than formal relationships to reality.
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 410 words
; 0826486177 Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus. White, Roger M. Continuum Publishing Group 2006 163 pages $75.00 Hardcover Continuum reader's guides B3376...
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Routledge philosophy guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 515 words
; 9780415357210 Routledge philosophy guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Morris, Michael. Routledge 2008 401 pages $90.00 Hardcover Routledge philosophy guidebooks B3376 In a volume...
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Architecture: The house that Ludwig built
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/8/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...obsessiveness he displayed in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. Interest in Wittgenstein has...today who have never heard of Philosophical Investigations, but, because of the house...
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Wittgenstein's house; language, space, and architecture.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 468 words
; ...Rice U.) explores the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house revealing its place amongst Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations in Wittgenstein's major works. Using an interdisciplinary approach, she discusses...
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The golden fish: on reading J.S. Harry.
Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...language-games, and her poems--like Wittgenstein's approaches to language in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations--scrutinise the capacity of language to transfer meaning. This has led Marie-Louise...
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Essays illuminating philosopher's world and ways.(B)(Books)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/28/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...reactions to it - that supply us with the real clues as to what the author of the "Tractatus Logico-Philosoophicus" and "Philosophical Investigations" was up to. Just as "a red square against a black background is perceived differently...
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THINKING ABOUT LIFE: CORA DIAMOND
News Wire article from: United Press International; 5/20/2002; 700+ words
; ...best example of that aspect of Diamond's thought is perhaps her treatment of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the Philosophical Investigations. The two books often look to be as different in their methods and themes as any two...
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A list of books bound for glory
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/26/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...Criticism, by Northrop Frye, 699; Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 668; Aspects...Mind, by Claude Levi-Strauss; Philosophical Investigations and Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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Stern, David G. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction...Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is divided into...aspects of the Philosophical Investigations fit together...
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An Analytical Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, vol.1.(PHILOSOPHY)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 497 words
; ...commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations; v.1. (reprint, 1980...of his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953). Their treatise was...analytical commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, and has been reprinted often...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig J. J.
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
Wittgenstein, Ludwig J. J. (1889–1951...and lived in Austria until 1912, Wittgenstein is often regarded as the most important...relatively short academic career. Wittgenstein's early philosophical work was...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889–1951). Austrian...Philosophical Investigations (1953). Wittgenstein's later philosophy took a different...inexpressible. In his later work, however, Wittgenstein disclaimed any attempt to give a...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889–1951), born in Vienna, came to England in 1908; he lived most of his adult life in Cambridge...
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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein , 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher, b. Vienna...Wittgenstein (2 vol., 1980); D. Bloor, Wittgenstein (1983); R. Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1990); A. P. Griffiths, ed., Wittgenstein...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ludwig Wittgenstein After making important contributions...mathematics, the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) moved away from...the logic of informal language. Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in Vienna on April 26...
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