Wittgenstein

English

Proper noun

Wittgenstein

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

     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.

Derived terms

• Wittgensteinian
• Wittgensteinianism

Further reading

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