Answer the following about the work of the aptly-named philosopher John Wisdom, who is credited with the first use of the term “analytic philosophers,” for 10 points each.
[10m] Wisdom’s influence peaked during the heyday of a movement named for the “ordinary” type of these things. A work translated by G. E. M. Anscombe argued one of these things cannot be understood by just a single person.
ANSWER: languages [accept private language; accept ordinary language philosophy]
[10h] In his first book, Wisdom contrasts interpretation and analysis with a quote from this book about time. After discussing a quote from this book, another thinker imagines giving a shopkeeper a slip reading “five red apples.”
ANSWER: Confessions of St. Augustine [or Confessiones]
[10e] Because they were both at Cambridge, Wisdom’s work in the 1940s were interpreted as the new ideas of this Austrian-born philosopher until the posthumous publication of his book Philosophical Investigations.
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein [or Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein]
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