PhilosophersLudwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Analytic philosophy1889 – 1951 AustriaPhilosopher of languageLogicianPhilosopher of mind
Inspirations
Gottlob Fregemodern logic, his "great works"
Bertrand Russell his teacher at Cambridge, logical analysis
Arthur Schopenhauer the world as my representation, the subject as limit of the world
Augustin the picture of language that opens the Investigations
criticHeirs
Cercle de Viennea reading of the Tractatus against metaphysics
Philosophie du langage ordinaire (Oxford)back to the everyday use of words
Elizabeth Anscombehis student, translator and editor
Saul Kripkethe rule-following paradox
Similar and opposite philosophers
how it is computedClosest
John Searle Consciousness is a real and irreducible fact of inner life; to deny it is to overlook what is in front of us.
100 %Martin Heidegger What is Being? We have forgotten the question.
100 %Roderick Chisholm When we act freely, we cause our acts, and nothing causes us to cause them: each of us would be a "prime mover unmoved".
86 %Susan Wolf A life is meaningful when one loves what is worthy of love and engages with it actively.
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