Ludwig Wittgenstein: Frasi in inglese (pagina 8)
Ludwig Wittgenstein era filosofo e logico austriaco. Frasi in inglese.
Conversation of 1930
Similar to Wittgenstein's written notes of the "Big Typescript" published in Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993) edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, p. 175: Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.
Personal Recollections (1981)
6.51
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
“What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”
§ 116
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“When I obey a rule, I do not choose.
I obey the rule blindly.”
§ 219
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.”
Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 8e
“What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.”
Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Pt II, p. 189
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 17e
“What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.”
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Original German: Was der Fall ist, die Tatsache, ist das Bestehen von Sachverhalten.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
“The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.”
Though this has been quoted extensively as if it were a statement of Wittgenstein, it was apparently first published in A Brief History of Time (1988) by Stephen Hawking, p. 175, where it is presented in quotation marks and thus easily interpreted to be a quotation, but could conceivably be Hawking paraphrasing or giving his own particular summation of Wittgenstein's ideas, as there seem to be no published sources of such a statement prior to this one. The full remark by Hawking reads:
: Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.” What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!
Disputed
“If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?”
Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 24e
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
This actually first appears in Recent Experiments in Psychology (1950) by Leland Whitney Crafts, Théodore Christian Schneirla, and Elsa Elizabeth Robinson, where it is expressed:
: If we used a different vocabulary or if we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Randy Allen Harris, in Rhetoric and Incommensurability (2005), p. 35, and an endnote on p. 138 indicates the misattribution seems to have originated in a misreading of quotes in Patterns Of Discovery: An Inquiry Into The Conceptual Foundations of Science (1958) by Norwood Russell Hanson, where an actual quotation of WIttgenstein on p. 184 is followed by one from the book on psychology.
Misattributed
Philosophical Remarks (1930), Part I (1)
1930s-1951
On his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in a letter to Ludwig von Ficker (1919), published in Wittgenstein : Sources and Perspectives (1979) by C. Grant Luckhard
1910s