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Nov 8, 2002 · David Stern calls the early Wittgenstein’s views on logic, language, and method “logical atomism” and the later Wittgenstein’s “practical holism,” tagging the middle Wittgenstein as “logical holism.”
- Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism
Different, though related, versions of the view were...
- Certainty
Ludwig Wittgenstein also seems to connect certainty with...
- Vienna Circle
(For English-language survey monographs and articles on the...
- Logical Truth
Given a Fregean language, a structure for the language is a...
- Religious Language
The principal aim of research on religious language is to...
- Logical Form
Ludwig Wittgenstein argued, in his influential Tractatus...
- Russell's Logical Atomism
Nowhere is Russell’s influence more clearly seen than in the...
- Private Language
1. Overview: Wittgenstein’s Argument and its...
- Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism
Sep 10, 2019 · Language as Picture the World. In his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), which itself proved a popular text with the logical positivists, Wittgenstein presented what soon became called his “picture theory” of language.
A language-game (German: Sprachspiel) is a philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. Wittgenstein argued that a word or even a sentence has meaning only as a result of the "rule" of the "game" being played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Analysis of Language. The direction of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century was altered not once but twice by the enigmatic Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein .
Throughout his work, Wittgenstein was concerned with the foundations of language; the crucial shift lay from the appeal to simples to the appeal to samples, and a corresponding shift from assumptions about what lies hidden to an appreciation of what is visible to all in our linguistic practices.
Ordinary language philosophy. Wittgenstein’s later philosophy represents a complete repudiation of the notion of an ideal language. Nothing can be achieved by the attempt to construct one, he believed. There is no direct or infallible foundation of meaning for an ideal language to make transparent.
Language games, for Wittgenstein, are concrete social activities that crucially involve the use of specific forms of language. By describing the countless variety of language games—the countless ways in which language is actually used in human interaction—Wittgenstein meant to show that “the speaking…. Read More.
