4 ideas from Ludwig Wittgenstein, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.
Wittgenstein imagined a community where everyone has a private box, calls whatever's inside it a 'beetle', and can never look in anyone else's box. Since each person only ever lear…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Late in life, Wittgenstein abandoned his own earlier theory that language works by picturing facts, and argued instead that words get their meaning from use within a 'language-game…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus builds an entire theory of language and logic, then closes by comparing its own propositions to a ladder: useful for climbing, …
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Show someone the sequence 2, 4, 6, 8 and they'll say the rule is "add two" — but the same data fits infinitely many other rules, like "add two until 1000, then add four." Wittgenst…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations