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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky