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Wittgenstein, Ludwig
WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG (1889–1951), one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Born of a wealthy family in Vienna, Wittgenstein did most of his philos...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951)
Among the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein made important contributions to the philosophy of logic, theory of meaning, and philosoph...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Engineer, architect, and one of the most influential analytic and linguistic philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was born in Vienna, Aust...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig [addendum 2]
Although aesthetics was a subject of deep and lifelong importance to Ludwig Wittgenstein, he wrote very little directly on the topic. He did, however, write remarks o...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann(1889–1951)
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, the Austrian-British philosopher, was born in Vienna, the youngest of eight children. Ludwig's paternal gra...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann [addendum 1]
Of Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein's philosophical writings available in print, by far the greater part was published after the 1967 Encyclopedia...
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After making important contributions to logic and the foundations of mathematics, the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) moved away from formalism to an investigation of the logic of...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein is regarded as one of the leading analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. He is usually credited with instigating not one revolution in philosophical method but two. Until ...
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Pitcher is an American author and educator. In the following essay, originally published in 1965, he relates Wittgenstein's writings on linguistic nonsense to Lewis Carroll's use of nons...
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Perloff is an Austrian-born American critic and educator. In the following essay, she applies Wittgensteinian poetics to the works of several contemporary writers and poets.
Philosophy ought really t...
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In the following essay, Schulte examines the relationship between the Tractatus and Wittgenstein's later works.
Much of what cannot be said but only shown, according to the doctrine of the Trac...
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In the following essay, Guetti attempts to determine how Wittgenstein's philosophical principles relating to the nature and function of language may be used in the analysis of "literary ...
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Rorty is a noted American philosopher. In the following essay, originally published in 1976, he provides an overview of Wittgenstein's influence on later philosophical movements.
Ever since phi...
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An American philosopher and writer, Hartshorne is the author of numerous books about philosophy and metaphysics. In the following essay, he discusses Wittgensteinian metaphysics.
With all famous philo...
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Thiher is an American writer and educator. In the following essay, he suggests that Wittgenstein's intellectual development between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations represents...
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High is an American writer and educator. In the following essay, he comments on issues of certainty and religious belief in the writings of Wittgenstein.
In what has been posthumously published as Cul...
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Peterson is a Scottish educator and author. In the following essay, he examines Wittgenstein's notion of the mystical within his Tractarian philosophy.
In venturing behind the great mirror, the...
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In the following essay, which is a revised version of the J R. Jones Memorial Lecture given at the University of Swansea in 1979, Bambrough addresses issues of belief certainty, and adherence to dogma...
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