Although his early work posited that language consists of identifiable, simple propositions that picture  facts about the world, his later writings attacked this notion, taking an instrumental view of language as consisting of a number of games.
Inspired by religious works by Tolstoy he discovered in a Galician village, he gave his money away and took a job as an elementary schoolteacher. Although his early work posited that language consists of identifiable, simple propositions that picture  facts about the world, his later writings attacked this notion, taking an instrumental view of language as consisting of a number of games. FTP, name this Austrian philosopher, author of the Blue and Brown Books, Philosophical Investigations, and the Tr  actatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Inspired by religious works by Tolstoy he discovered in a Galician village, he gave his money away and took a job as an elementary schoolteacher.
Ludwig Wittgenstein