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Meaning of Wittgenstein | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. A surname from German.
  2. Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born twentieth-century philosopher noted for the idea of "family resemblance" as that which individual objects of a sense of a term have in common.

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“Thus we might ask Wittgenstein and Phillips if the structure of family resemblance does not dissolve the dichotomy of internal/external to which their semantic and criteriologic pragmatic contextualism is connected.”

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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