English Explanatory Dictionary

Wittgensteinian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the person or ideas of 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.
noun
  1. One who believes or follows the principles of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Word forms

Wittgensteinian Wittgensteinians

Etymology

From Wittgenstein + -ian.

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