Themes and Concepts

Major themes and concepts in Wittgenstein's works include:

Anti-metaphysics

Anti-scientism

Anti-solipsism

Explanation and understanding

Forms of life

Knowledge and certainty

Language games

Ordinary language and nonsense

Ostensive definition




Ownership of experience

Philosophical psychology

Picture theory of meaning

Rule-following

Tautologies

The Augustinian picture of language

The autonomy of grammar

The first-person pronoun

The inner/outer

The law of the excluded middle

The nature of mathematical propositions

The principle of verification

The private language argument

The relation of meaning to use

The say/show distinction

Volition and will


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