Wittgenstein
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- proper noun
- /ˈwɪtɡənstaɪn/
- Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein provides some convincing examples in his 1953 book Philosophical Investigations.
- Wittgenstein's Investigations
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Wittgenstein's philosophical
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Watch on YouTubeThis is what Wittgenstein calls assembling reminders.
- This is what Wittgenstein calls assembling reminders.
- So he's not targeting AJ Eyre or the early Wittgenstein or the Vienna Circle.
- He took Wittgenstein's course at Cambridge, you know, argued with him.
- Rather, as Wittgenstein says, the concept forces itself upon us.
- And now let me leave you with some words from Wittgenstein.
- But you know, look as I like, you know, I often give this line from Wittgenstein, explanation has to end somewhere, right?
- Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said if a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
- And Wittgenstein and and other philosophers in who were trained in the analytical tradition eventually found that they had to go beyond it, beyond it.
- I think that's mistaken theories, I argue, coming from out of Kuhn, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, other people in the history of philosophy and science.
Examples
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And one of my favorites is the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who said he got his best ideas when he peeled potatoes.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein significantly impacted the study of language in philosophy.
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"What is a word really?" I had read in Wittgenstein the very night before.
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Generally, one can say with Wittgenstein that a change of concepts also changes a certain grammar of the world.
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So Ludwig Wittgenstein is a famous philosopher.
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There is no direct evidence that Wittgenstein read a collection of Heraclitus' fragments.
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There appears to be what Wittgenstein called an 'unbridgeable gulf' between the brain and the conscious mind.
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Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said if a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
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The idea that emotional expressions make emotions perceptible can be traced back at least to Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Don't look for the meaning, look for the use. --Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) 1 #
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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An Austrian-born British philosopher who changed ideas about logic and language
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Etymology
Wittgenstein is a German family name that ends with -stein, which means 'stone' in German. So, to remember the philosopher Wittgenstein, imagine a 'stone' because the -stein part helps you recall his name.