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The picture theory of language, also known as the picture theory of meaning, is a theory of linguistic reference and meaning articulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Wittgenstein suggested that a meaningful proposition pictured a state of affairs or atomic fact. [1] [2] Wittgenstein compared the concept of ...
Feb 23, 2007 · Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics is undoubtedly the most unknown and under-appreciated part of his philosophical opus. Indeed, more than half of Wittgenstein’s writings from 1929 through 1944 are devoted to mathematics, a fact that Wittgenstein himself emphasized in 1944 by writing that his “chief contribution has been in the philosophy of mathematics” (Monk 1990: 466).
Wittgenstein’s philosophy also accounts for the disastrous state of Internet discourse today. The shift to online communication, textual interactions separated from accompanying physical ...
May 20, 2021 · A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy for ever. Written in the trenches, his “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” still baffles and inspires. May 20th 2021. O F ALL THE innovations ...
Jun 7, 2020 · The second, longer part of the book focuses on Wittgenstein's later work. William Child defends both anti-reductionism about meaning and rule-following, and the view that Wittgenstein was such an anti-reductionist himself. This anti-reductionism holds that facts about meaning and rules are basic.
Dec 23, 2023 · Disputed [edit]. The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. Though this has been quoted extensively as if it were a statement of Wittgenstein, it was apparently first published in A Brief History of Time (1988) by Stephen Hawking, p. 175, where it is presented in quotation marks and thus easily interpreted to be a quotation, but could conceivably be Hawking ...
The later Wittgenstein. Frege’s theory of meaning, for all its sophistication, relied on an unsatisfactory account of thoughts as abstract objects.The Tractatus did not have to deal with such a problem, because it treated meaning—and language altogether—independently of the ways in which language is actually used by human beings.
