English Explanatory Dictionary

Wittgenstein

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from German.
  2. 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.

Word forms

Wittgenstein

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wittgenstein.

Derived words

Wittgensteinian Wittgensteinianism
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