Ludwig Wittgenstein

He was an Austrian philosopher and linguist born in 1889, he was the disciple of Bertrand Russell in the Trinity College of Cambridge, later on he was teacher.



During his life he passed trough two different stages of thinking, the first period is the one that goes around his first important work, published in 1923, the Tractatus logico-philosophicus, after he published this work, he left the philosophy believing that he had resolved all the problems related to it, years later, after some stumbles he returned to teach and philosophize, but with a very different thinking and spirit that in his first work, in 1953 he published the Philosophical Investigations (Philosophische Untersuchungen).

His philosophy is divides in those two stages: Logic Philosophy and Language Games.



1st Stage


The thoughts are logic representation of facts, he said that language reflects thoughts, so the language shows us the world, a proposition that can't be proved, shouldn't be said.
For example, you can't say that the world is going to an end in year 2012, because nothing is sure about it.











2nd Stage

As i said before, in the second stage of his works, in this 2nd stage he rejected the previous one, he said that one word can have different interpretations depending its context, he conclude that languages evolve, he called them language games, he thought that what really matter is the use you gave to words not the relation. To say a proposition you first need to know to which language belong.