Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

Later work on meaning, language-games, and ordinary language philosophy

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Austrian-British philosopher who produced two completely different and enormously influential philosophies in one career. The early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus argued that language pictures the world; the late Philosophical Investigations argued that meaning is use. Both works transformed 20th-century analytic philosophy.

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