Wittgenstein

Borrowed from German Wittgenstein.

Wittgenstein

1. A surname from German.
2. (philosophy) 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.
   • 2012, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Tage Kurtén, Crisis and Change: Religion, Ethics and Theology under Late Modern Conditions, →ISBN:

     Thus we might ask Wittgenstein and Phillips if the structure of family resemblance does not dissolve the dichotomy of internal/external to which their semantic and criteriologic pragmatic contextualism is connected.

• Wittgensteinian
• Wittgensteinianism

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪtɡənʃtaɪ̯n/
• Hyphenation: Witt‧gen‧stein

Wittgenstein m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Wittgensteins or (with an article) Wittgenstein, feminine genitive Wittgenstein, plural Wittgensteins)

1. a surname
   • 1993, “Wittgenstein sagt”, performed by Tilman Rossmy:

     Sie sagt: Wie kannst du dir sicher sein, dass du mich liebst / Wenn Wittgenstein sagt, dass es noch nicht mal sicher ist / Dass es die Welt überhaupt gibt

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