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
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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.