Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Austrian person British person analytic philosopher human philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein was a 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher whose groundbreaking work in logic, language, and the philosophy of mind profoundly shaped analytic philosophy.

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countryOfDeath United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth 1889-04-26 →
dateOfDeath 1951-04-29 →
educatedAt Technical University of Berlin →
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Trinity College, Cambridge →
Cambridge University →
surface form: "University of Cambridge"

University of Manchester →
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metaphysics →
philosophy of language →
philosophy of mathematics →
philosophy of mind →
philosophy of religion →
fullName Ludwig Wittgenstein →
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Elizabeth Anscombe →
Gilbert Ryle →
J. L. Austin →
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Saul Kripke →
Willard Van Orman Quine →
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influencedBy Arthur Schopenhauer →
Bertrand Russell →
Gottlob Frege →
Søren Kierkegaard →
language English →
German →
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movement analytic philosophy →
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nationality Austrian →
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On Certainty →
Philosophical Investigations →
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics →
The Blue and Brown Books →
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus →
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placeOfBirth Vienna →
placeOfDeath Cambridge, England →
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positionHeld Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge →
religion Christianity →
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surface form: "Cambridge"

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William James → influenced → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
Über Sinn und Bedeutung → influenced → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
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Arne Næss → influencedBy → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
David Foster Wallace → influencedBy → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
Donald Davidson → influencedBy → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
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Norman Malcolm → influencedBy → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
Paul Feyerabend → influencedBy → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
Raymond Smullyan → influencedBy → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
Richard Rorty → influencedBy → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
Saul Kripke → influencedBy → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
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