Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Neuwaldegg
- Educated at
- University of CambridgeTechnische Universität BerlinTrinity CollegeVictoria University of ManchesterTechnische Hochschule Berlin
- Awards
- 🏆 Medal for Bravery
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Bertrand Russell
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Reuben Goodstein📖 Casimir Lewy
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Trending topics shown first"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the prese…"
"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."
"What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one could say — forms of life."
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Timeline
1845
Born
Birth1925
Died
Death
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