Wittgenstein

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proper noun

A surname from German.

OriginGerman Wittgenstein →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A surname from German.
  2. human sciencesLudwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born twentieth-century philosopher noted for the idea of "family resemblance" as that which individual objects of a sense of a term have in common.

    Thus we might ask Wittgenstein and Phillips if the structure of family resemblance does not dissolve the dichotomy of internal/external to which their semantic and criteriologic pragmatic contextualism is connected.

    2012, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Tage Kurtén, Crisis and Change: Religion, Ethics and Theology under Late Modern Conditions, →ISBN

Origin

  1. GermanWittgenstein
  2. EnglishWittgenstein

Borrowed from German Wittgenstein.

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