In later years he repudiated these ideas, expounding his theories of "language games" and "word families" in 1953's Philosophical Investigations.
This philosopher's first book was published in 1922 and attracted much attention for its theory that language is made of elementary propositions, that if all true elementary propositions were listed the world would be completely described, and that religion, ethics and aesthetics do not consist of such propositions and are therefore gibberish. In later years he repudiated these ideas, expounding his theories of "language games" and "word families" in 1953's Philosophical Investigations. FTP, name this author of the Blue and Brown Books and Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
This philosopher's first book was published in 1922 and attracted much attention for its theory that language is made of elementary propositions, that if all true elementary propositions were listed the world would be completely described, and that religion, ethics and aesthetics do not consist of such propositions and are therefore gibberish.
Ludwig Wittgenstein