![]() 2īold claims made Ludwig Wittgenstein a controversial character, fluctuating in the eyes of his peers and students between a madman and a genius. 1 This is known as the picture-theory and it drove the logical positivism movement that defined philosophy up and into the 1960s. He only published one book during his lifetime, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in which he challenged how we think of language and logic, suggesting that the function of language is to allow us to picture things. There were few philosophical fields left untouched by the British-Austrian genius he worked with logic, mathematics, ethics, the mind, and most notably, revolutionized the way that we understand language. ![]() Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. ![]()
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