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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. From 1929?1947, Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge. During his lifetime he published just one slim book, the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one article, one book review and a children's dictionary. His voluminous manuscripts were edited and published posthumously. Philosophical Investigations appeared as a book in 1953 and by the end of the century it was considered an important modern classic. Philosopher Bertrand Russell described Wittgenstein as "the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived; passionate, profound, intense, and dominating". Born in Vienna into one of Europe's richest families, he inherited a large fortune from his father in 1913. He gave some considerable sums to poor artists. In a period of severe personal depression after the first World War, he then gave away his entire fortune to his brothers and sisters. Three of his brothers committed suicide, with Wittgenstein contemplating it too. 
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April 26th, 1889 in Vienna  /  Died:   Apr 29th, 1951
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BirthYear : 1889
BirthMonthAndDay : 04-26
BirthDate : 1889-04-26
BirthPlace : Vienna
BirthPlace : Austria-Hungary
BirthPlace : Linz
BirthPlace : Austria
DeathDate : 1951-04-29
DeathPlace : Cambridge
DeathYear : 1951
Era : 20th-century_philosophy
IndividualisedGnd : 118634313
Influenced : Bertrand_Russell
Influenced : G._E._Moore
Influenced : Frank_P._Ramsey
Influenced : Vienna_Circle
Influenced : Rudolf_Carnap
Influenced : Alan_Turing
Influenced : G._E._M._Anscombe
Influenced : Gilbert_Ryle
Influenced : Saul_Kripke
Influenced : Daniel_Dennett
Influenced : John_Searle
Influenced : Hans_Sluga
Influenced : Peter_Hacker
Influenced : Stephen_Toulmin
InfluencedBy : Gottlob_Frege
InfluencedBy : Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
InfluencedBy : Søren_Kierkegaard
InfluencedBy : G._E._Moore
InfluencedBy : Bertrand_Russell
InfluencedBy : Arthur_Schopenhauer
InfluencedBy : Baruch_Spinoza
InfluencedBy : Leo_Tolstoy
InfluencedBy : Heinrich_Hertz
InfluencedBy : Hermann_von_Helmholtz
MainInterest : Logic
MainInterest : Metaphysics
MainInterest : Philosophy_of_language
MainInterest : Philosophy_of_mathematics
MainInterest : Philosophy_of_mind
MainInterest : Epistemology
NotableIdea : Picture_theory_of_language
NotableIdea : Truth_function
NotableIdea : State_of_affairs_(philosophy)
NotableIdea : Logical_truth
NotableIdea : Philosophical_Investigations
NotableIdea : Language-game_(philosophy)
NotableIdea : Private_language_argument
NotableIdea : Family_resemblance
NotableIdea : Rule_following
NotableIdea : Form_of_life_(philosophy)
NotableIdea : Fideism
NotableIdea : Anti-realism
NotableIdea : Ludwig_Wittgenstein's_philosophy_of_mathematics
NotableIdea : Ordinary_language_philosophy
NotableIdea : Analytic_philosophy
NotableIdea : Intuitionism
NotableIdea : Semantic_externalism
NotableIdea : Quietism
NotableIdea : Set_theory
PhilosophicalSchool : Analytic_philosophy
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