Wittgenstein
OriginAustria/UK
Era1889
SchoolAnalytic
About Wittgenstein
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was completed in the trenches of World War I. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. His later work Philosophical Investigations completely reversed his earlier views. Gave away his enormous inherited fortune to his siblings. Designed and built a house for his sister in Vienna.
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