Themes and Concepts
Major themes and concepts in Wittgenstein's works include:
Anti-metaphysics
Anti-metaphysics
Anti-scientism
Anti-scientism
Anti-solipsism
Anti-solipsism
Explanation and understanding
Explanation and understanding
Forms of life
Forms of life
Knowledge and certainty
Knowledge and certainty
Language games
Language games
Ordinary language and nonsense
Ordinary language and nonsense
Ostensive definition
Ostensive definition
Ownership of experience
Ownership of experience
Philosophical psychology
Philosophical psychology
Picture theory of meaning
Picture theory of meaning
Rule-following
Rule-following
Tautologies
Tautologies
The Augustinian picture of language
The Augustinian picture of language
The autonomy of grammar
The autonomy of grammar
The first-person pronoun
The first-person pronoun
The inner/outer
The inner/outer
The law of the excluded middle
The law of the excluded middle
The nature of mathematical propositions
The nature of mathematical propositions
The principle of verification
The principle of verification
The private language argument
The private language argument
The relation of meaning to use
The relation of meaning to use
The say/show distinction
The say/show distinction
Volition and will
Volition and will