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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley