Ludwig Wittgenstein: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Born April 26, 1889 • Vienna • Austria
Died April 29, 1951 (aged 62) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works “Philosophical Investigations” • “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”
Subjects Of Study certainty • language game • picture theory of meaning • proposition

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