Ludwigg Wittgenstein

Ludwigg Wittgenstein

Early Wittgenstein

• Wrote Tractatus looking at picture language - where words are used to represent the world
  
• This influenced the corrospondance theory of truth - where words corrospond to an image
• His quote 'whereof one cannot speak, one must remain silent' was influential for verificationists in arguing the meaningless of religious language

Later Wittgenstein

• Wittgenstein left philosophy but returned with a second book: Philosophical investigations
• This looked specifically at how words are used and how language is learnt
• Wittgenstein dismissed picture language and argued that we learn language in a context - E.g. 'Box' is a fight or a storage facility - it depends on the context
• Wittgenstein developped this non-cognative approach into a…