WITTGENSTEINIAN Definition & Meaning

Wittgensteinian

/ -ˌstaɪnɪən; ˈvɪtɡənˌʃtaɪnɪən /

adjective

(of a philosophical position or argument) derived from or related to the work of Wittgenstein and esp the later work in which he attacks essentialism and stresses the open texture and variety of use of ordinary language

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Hobbes was no more committed to the supposed Wittgensteinian view of truth than the GMC are.

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I use the Wittgensteinian concept of family resemblances.

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I don't want to go all Wittgensteinian on you – at least not here – but there are surely better ways to talk about, and to recommend, those things that most matter to us.

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Because they think they can make him into a supposed seventeenth-century Wittgensteinian.

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And at this point Wittgensteinian history of science places itself directly at odds with Galileo’s own account of what he is actually doing, and history of science is in a direct conflict with science.

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Wittgenstein witticism

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