Philosophical Investigations
1953 work by Ludwig Wittgenstein / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the book by Wittgenstein. For other uses of Philosophical Investigation or Philosophical Investigations, see Philosophical Investigations (disambiguation).
Philosophical Investigations (German: Philosophische Untersuchungen) is a work by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, published posthumously in 1953.
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Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Original title | Philosophische Untersuchungen |
Translator | G. E. M. Anscombe |
Language | German |
Subject | Ordinary language philosophy |
Publication date | 1953 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
OCLC | 954131267 |
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Philosophical Investigations is divided into two parts, consisting of what Wittgenstein calls, in the preface, Bemerkungen, translated by Anscombe as "remarks".[1]
A survey among American university and college teachers ranked the Investigations as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy.[2]