Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian-British philosopher who produced two incompatible philosophies, each enormously influential. The Tractatus tried to fix the limits of language; the Philosophical Investigations replaced that with Language Games, where meaning is use. Most arguments about "what love really is" or "what atheism really means" are the second Wittgenstein's territory.

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Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953, posthumous)

Love

This is where Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and especially Language Games becomes particularly illuminating.

Elizabeth Anscombe

G. E. M. Anscombe (1919–2001) was a British analytic philosopher, a student and literary executor of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and a devout Catholic. Intention (1957) founded the modern philosophy of action, and "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958)…

Language Games

Ludwig Wittgenstein‘s language-games are the idea that the meaning of words arises from how they are used within particular social contexts and activities, rather than from fixed definitions.