The Blue and Brown Books

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The Blue and Brown Books are posthumously published sets of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s lecture notes that mark his transition from the ideas of the Tractatus to the later philosophy of language developed in Philosophical Investigations.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
collection of lecture notes
philosophical work
author Ludwig Wittgenstein
basedOn Wittgenstein’s lectures in Cambridge
composedOf The Blue Book
The Brown Book
containsDiscussionOf family resemblance
language-games
ostensive definition
philosophical method as therapy
understanding
countryOfPublication United Kingdom
editor G. E. M. Anscombe
G. H. von Wright
Rush Rhees
genre analytic philosophy text
philosophical lectures
hasForm dictated notes
student lecture notes
influenced Gilbert Ryle
J. L. Austin
Oxford philosophy
ordinary language philosophy
language English
marksTransitionFrom Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
marksTransitionTo Philosophical Investigations
notableFor early presentation of later Wittgenstein’s ideas
informal, exploratory style
transition from picture theory of meaning to use theory of meaning
philosophicalPeriod later Wittgenstein
publicationStatus posthumous
publicationYear 1958
publisher Basil Blackwell
relatedWork Philosophical Investigations
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
subject analytic philosophy
meaning
method of philosophy
philosophy of language
private language
rule-following
use theory of meaning
timeOfComposition early 1930s
mid 1930s

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
notableWork
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