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Philosophical Investigations' by Ludwig Wittgenstein is arguably the most important philosophical work of the 20th century, followed close behind by Wittgenstein's earlier work, the `Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'. While the earlier work was heavily influenced and endorsed by Bertrand Russell, who was always better known than his Austrian colleague in the world at large, the latter work is a complete departure from the logic based philosophy of Russell and the Logical Positivists, for whom the Tractatus was their bible. Although I have never seen this in any philosophical or historical analysis of Wittgenstein's work, the `Philosophical Investigations' were much closer to the `common sense' style of philosophy of G. E. Moore than to the thinking of Russell. All three were Cambridge dons and it is certain that Wittgenstein and Moore knew one another very well. The only thing which may have prevented Moore's ideas from influencing Wittgenstein is that the latter man was a much deeper thinker whose ideas still shape modern philosophy while Moore has become something of a footnote in the history of philosophy, best known for his common sense defense of the real world and his `naturali
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- Author
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishers
- Published
- 1974
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780631146704
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Fiction, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.23 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Philosophische Untersuchungen = Philosophical investigations (2010)
- Philosophical Investigations (1999)
- Philosophical Investigations; Translated by G.E.M. Anscombe. 3rd Ed. [reprinted] with Index (1986)
- Philosophische Untersuchungen = Philosophical investigations (2009)
- Philosophical investigations ; transl. from German Philosophische Untersuchungen (1968)
- Philosophical Investigations; Translated by G.E.M. Anscombe. 3rd Ed. [reprinted] with Index (1968)
- Philosophical Investigations; Translated by G.E.M. Anscombe. 3rd Ed. [reprinted] with Index (2009)
- Philosophical investigations = Philosophische untersuchungen (1953)
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