Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who investigated, amongst other things, the degree to which we may safely accept that words may be used in sound arguments. His initial view, as published in his book "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" in 1921, was that no guarantee was possible that the common characteristics of distinct things had any actual existence.

Philosophical Babel

Submitted by jhwierenga on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 10:06
Breugel painting of tower of Babel

Ever since writing has been developed, philosophers have written philosophical works. Although many such works are impeccably argued, it must be observed that philosophers rarely agree. Words can be used with equal alacrity to argue that God exists and that He cannot possibly exist, that everything can be known and that nothing can be known, that it is essential to be good and that we should move beyond good and evil, that words are fundamentally meaningful and that words are meaningless.

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