Ludwig Wittgenstein - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

A book by this philosopher was published posthumously in translation by his student G. E. M. Anscombe. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this philosopher whose “late” work at Cambridge is exemplified by his Philosophical Investigations, which contradicts much of his “early” Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein (“VIT-gen-shtyne”)

[10h] While early Wittgenstein’s “picture theory” of meaning holds that meaningful statements refer to “atomic facts,” late Wittgenstein held that a word’s meaning depends on how it is used in one of these constructs.

ANSWER: language games [or sprachspiele; reject “games”]

[10e] The so-called “middle Wittgenstein” focused on the philosophy of this field, inspired by L. E. J. Brouwer. Isaac Newton wrote a “Principia” of this field.

ANSWER: mathematics [accept Principia Mathematica]

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