Associations to the word «Wittgenstein»

Wiktionary

WITTGENSTEIN, proper noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

WITTGENSTEIN, noun. British philosopher born in Austria; a major influence on logic and logical positivism (1889-1951).

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates