Word: wittgenstein
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...follows these with a group of intriguing reviews on Pascal, Mill, Wittgenstein, and others of more sensibility than science. The discussion of The Age of Analysis picks up Morton White's rewarding distinction between the "hedgehogs" and "foxes" of twentieth-century philosophy (taken from the Greek poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing...
...traced the development Wittgenstein's theories of beginning with logical , which he later abandon- like all other metaphysical , he discovered, it too was of nonsensical sentences...
...Wittgenstein compared not to pictures but tools, by which people do in the world rather than hold...
This later work, Albritton said, Wittgenstein explored the that at least some typical of philosophy have no ; to give them right or answers would be to alter existing conventions by which with such answers...
...Wittgenstein viewed philosophy battle against the of our understanding by of our language," a battle to "let the fly out of bottle." This concept contrasted with the of philosophy by the "deepest " of the existentialists, Heidegger -- "fulfilled to the Being...