Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein usually refers to Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), the Austrian-British philosopher widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His work spans two distinct phases: the early Wittgenstein of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), which argued that the structure of language mirrors the structure of the world and that philosophical problems arise from the misuse of language; and the later Wittgenstein of the Philosophical Investigations (1953), which rejected the Tractatus's systematic picture in favor of a view of language as a collection of loosely connected language