Ludwig Wittgenstein

De Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, vaak afgekort tot Tractatus, is het eerste hoofdwerk van de Oostenrijks-Engelse filosoof Ludwig Wittgenstein. In dit werk verdedigt Wittgenstein een substantiële definitie van waarheid, concreter gaat het om een correspondentietheorie van de waarheid. Het boek werd tijdens de Eerste …

Het werk Filosofische onderzoekingen is een boek dat samen met de Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus de belangrijkste werken zijn van de Oostenrijks-Engelse invloedrijke filosoof Ludwig Wittgenstein. De filosofische onderzoekingen van Wittgenstein vonden voornamelijk hun oorsprong tijdens gesprekken en colleges en …

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The Blue and Brown Books are two sets of notes taken during lectures conducted by Ludwig Wittgenstein between 1933 and 1935. They were mimeographed as two separated books and a few copies were circulated in a restricted circle during Wittgenstein's lifetime. The lecture notes from 1933–4 were bound in blue cloth and …

On Certainty is a philosophical book composed from the notes written by Ludwig Wittgenstein just prior to his death. Some of the notes were left at the home of G. E. M. Anscombe, who later compiled the notes into a book. The book's concerns are largely epistemological, its main theme being that there are some things …

Culture and Value is a selection from the personal notes of Ludwig Wittgenstein made by Georg Henrik von Wright. It was first published in German as Vermischte Bemerkungen and the text has been emended in following editions. An English translation by Peter Winch was printed in 1980, and reprinted in 1984. Ten years …

Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics is a book of Ludwig Wittgenstein's notes on the philosophy of mathematics. It has been translated from German to English by G.E.M. Anscombe, edited by G.H. von Wright and Rush Rhees, and published first in 1956. The text has been produced from passages in various sources by …