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Wittgensteinian

Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the person or ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born twentieth-century philosopher noted for the idea of "family resemblance" as that which individual objects of a sense of a term have in common.
  • noun One who believes or follows the principles of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Etymologies

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Wittgenstein +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • “ “ “, 2001, ˜Wittgensteinian Lessons on Particularism™, in Carl Elliot (ed.), Wittgensteinian Bioethics, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 161 “ 80

    Moral Particularism Dancy, Jonathan 2009

  • John Harrison's The Course of the Heart "Wittgensteinian".

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • John Harrison's The Course of the Heart "Wittgensteinian".

    A Fine Morning for a Linkdump 2005

  • But I came around to a Wittgensteinian point of view that the practice of philosophy — as in “the stuff an assistant professor needs to do to get tenure in a philosophy department” — is not a very valuable human activity.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • To my non-Wittgensteinian classmates, this view was philosophical heresy.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • But I came around to a Wittgensteinian point of view that the practice of philosophy — as in “the stuff an assistant professor needs to do to get tenure in a philosophy department” — is not a very valuable human activity.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • But I came around to a Wittgensteinian point of view that the practice of philosophy — as in “the stuff an assistant professor needs to do to get tenure in a philosophy department” — is not a very valuable human activity.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • As I said in my initial post, to me Consciousness Explained is a great example of a Wittgensteinian project of shewing the fly out of the bottle.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • Instead, Wittgensteinian ideas had a pervasive “drip, drip, drip” influence on me in large part because of his influence on other writers who directly impacted me more. pjcamp says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • Like James had this idea, it's maybe Wittgensteinian but less sophisticated and maybe more true, where speaking words could make things real.

    James 2009

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  • The above definitions don't tell me much.. so wictionary has this

    "...and esp the later work in which he attacks essentialism and stresses the open texture and variety of use of ordinary language"

    February 19, 2013