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  <name><![CDATA[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Described by Bertrand Russell as &quot;the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating&quot;, he helped inspire two of the twentieth century's principal philosophical movements: the Vienna Circle and Oxford ordinary language philosophy. According to an end of the century poll, professional philosophers in Canada and the U.S. rank both his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations among the top five most important books in twentieth-century philosophy, the latter standing out as &quot;...the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations&quot;.  Wittgenstein's influence has been felt in nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences, yet there are widely diverging interpretations of his thought.

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  <title><![CDATA[Tractatus Logico Philosophicus]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Philosophical Investigations: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]></name>
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  <published>1953</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[On Certainty]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Blue and Brown Books]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Culture and Value]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Georg Henrik von Wright]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Winch]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Remarks on Colour]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Zettel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Cyril Barrett]]></name>
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  <published>1966</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Notebooks 1914-1916]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge 1939]]></title>
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  <published>1976</published>  
  
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