Ludwig Wittgenstein
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British philosopher born in Austria; a major influence on logic and logical positivism (1889-1951)
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German mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: a literary and intellectual history.
In 1923, Ludwig Wittgenstein proposed to "dispose" of Russell's paradox as follows: The reason why a function cannot be its own argument is that the sign for a function already contains the prototype of its argument, and it cannot contain itself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein ’s conclusion was that there were no clear definitions which we can give to words and categories but only a "halo" or "corona" Wittgenstein L. Philosophical Investigations 1953 (tr.
Frege's logical ideas nevertheless spread through the writings of his student Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) and other admirers, particularly Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951).
In the winter of 1948/9 Ludwig Wittgenstein lived and worked in Ireland.
John Wiley & Sons. p. 9 In the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein also held a direct reference position, arguing that names refer to a particular directly, and that this referent is its only meaning.