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About Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austro-British philosopher
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher associated with logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is known for work that shaped twentieth-century philosophical debate, especially in these fields. His writing centers on how language works, how thought is expressed, and the foundations of reasoning and meaning.
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- “Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.”Ludwig Wittgenstein
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- “A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.”Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus logico-philosophicus
1921
Zettel
1967
Philosophische Untersuchungen
1953
Über Gewissheit
1972