Logic and language · analytic philosophy · 1889–1951
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Vienna · Cambridge · Skjolden
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
The limits of language
Follow the numbered propositions of the Tractatus from facts and pictures to the silence of its final line.
Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusMeaning and use
Test language games, family resemblance and the remarks on rules against examples drawn from everyday speech.
Philosophical InvestigationsCertainty and doubt
Examine how Wittgenstein answers Moore and the skeptic by asking what has to stand fast for doubt to make sense.
On Certainty