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Ludwig Wittgenstein
 

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889–1951) Summary
14,850 words, approx. 50 pages
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann(1889 PAS supp. 35 (1961). Wisdom, John. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Oxford,...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann [addendum 1] Summary
2,266 words, approx. 8 pages
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann [addendum 1] Of Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein s writings and good selective bibliography of secondary literature. Winch, P., ed. Studies in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969....
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Summary
3,229 words, approx. 11 pages
(born April 26, 1889, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]—died April 29, 1951, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) Austrian-born English philosopher, regarded by many as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Wittgenstein's two major...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Summary
1,218 words, approx. 4 pages
Engineer, architect, and one of the most influential analytic and linguistic philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was born in Vienna, Austria, on April 26 and died a few days after his sixty-second birthday in...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951) Summary
1,154 words, approx. 4 pages
Among the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein made important contributions to the philosophy of logic, theory of meaning, and philosophical psychology and methodology. Wittgenstein was born into a wealthy Viennese family...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig [addendum 2] Summary
1,132 words, approx. 4 pages
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 on the visual arts, literature and poetry,...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann Summary
1,112 words, approx. 4 pages
Wittgenstein was born in Vienna and though originally trained as an engineer became a pupil of Bertrand Russell at Cambridge. He returned to Austria to serve in the First World War, and in 1921 published the German edition of the Tractatus...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Summary
1,097 words, approx. 4 pages
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 philosophical work at Cambridge, England. He became a British subject in 1938...
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig (Josef Johann) Summary
439 words, approx. 2 pages
(born April 26, 1889, Vienna—died April 29, 1951, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) Austrian-born English philosopher, regarded by many as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. He was born into an immensely wealthy and cultivated family....
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Russell, Bertrand A.W Summary
196 words, approx. 1 pages
. 1872–1970. Born at Ravenscroft, Glos., he worked mainly in England (especially Cambridge), sometimes in America. His early fame rested on two main contributions to logic, the theory of DESCRIPTIONS and the theory of TYPES. He taught...
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Whitehead, Alfred North Summary
150 words, approx. 1 pages
(born Feb. 15, 1861, Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, Kent, Eng.—died Dec. 30, 1947, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.) British mathematician and philosopher. He taught principally at the University of Cambridge (1885–1911) and Harvard University...
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Tractable Summary
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An algorithm is tractable if it provides a solution to a problem in time and space proportional to some polynomial function of the length of the problem ( complexity). For example, context-free languages may be parsed in time proportional to n3 where n...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein Summary
8,948 words, approx. 30 pages
For other people of this name, see Wittgenstein (disambiguation) Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ([luËtvɪç ËjoËzÉf ËjoËhan ËvɪtgÉnÊtaɪn] in German) (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was a philosopher of Austrian origin who worked...


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