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Ludwig Wittgenstein
- He was born on April 26, 1889
in Vienna at a family illustrated.
- He died in Cambridge on April 29, 1951
- Austrian philosopher, one of the most
influential thinkers of the twentieth century
- He moved to Britain to study
engineering at the University of
Manchester.
- His interest in pure mathematics led
him to Trinity College (Cambridge)
to study with Bertrand Russell.
- In 1918 Wittgenstein had finished his
Tractatus logicus-Philosophicus (1921), a
work which he, supplied the "final
solution" to the philosophical problems
- Later, he turned from philosophy and for
years taught school in a village in Austria
- Obras
- Philosophical Investigations (1953)
- Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (1956)
- The blue and brown books (1958)
- Notes 1914-1916 (1961)
- Gramática filosófica (1969)
- During World War II he was helping for a while in a
London hospital, retiring as professor of Cambridge
in 1947.
- The key to the solution of philosophical
puzzle is the therapeutic process to
examine and describe the language in use.
- Words are like tools, and the tools serve
different functions and linguistic
expressions serve several functions.
- Although some prepositions are used to
represent facts, others are used to sort,
question, pray, thanking, cursing, and so on.
- This recognition of the plurality and linguistic
flexibility led to Wittgenstein's concept of
language game and conclude that different
people interpret language games.