Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgensteinwas an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. From 1929 to 1947, Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge. During his lifetime he published just one slim book, the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one article, one book review and a children's dictionary. His voluminous manuscripts were edited and published posthumously. Philosophical Investigations appeared as a book in 1953, and has since come to be...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth26 April 1889
CityVienna, Austria
CountryAustria
A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
What can be shown, cannot be said.
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
The world is everything that is the case.
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.