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Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
(1889-1951) an Austrian
philosopher
, who studied and taught at Cambridge in the UK. His interests included the relationship between language and the physical world, and his best known works are
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
and
Philosophical Investigations
.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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