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Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein proper noun: a surname from German.

Proper noun

Wittgenstein

  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.
    • Thus we might ask Wittgenstein and Phillips if the structure of family resemblance does not dissolve the dichotomy of internal/external to which their semantic and criteriologic pragmatic contextualism is connected.2012, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Tage Kurtén, Crisis and Change: Religion, Ethics and Theology under Late Modern Conditions, →ISBN

Origin of Wittgenstein

Borrowed from German Wittgenstein.

Words formed from Wittgenstein

Questions about Wittgenstein

What does Wittgenstein mean?
Wittgenstein means a surname from German.
What part of speech is Wittgenstein?
Wittgenstein is a proper noun.

Words near Wittgenstein in the dictionary

  1. witters
  2. Witterses
  3. Wittersham
  4. Wittes
  5. witteth
  6. Wittgenstein
  7. Wittgensteinean
  8. Wittgensteineanism
  9. Wittgensteineans
  10. Wittgensteinian
  11. Wittgensteinianism

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