Wittgensteinian

British  

/ -ˌstaɪnɪən, ˈvɪtɡənˌʃtaɪnɪən /

adjective

1. (of a philosophical position or argument) derived from or related to the work of Wittgenstein and esp the later work in which he attacks essentialism and stresses the open texture and variety of use of ordinary language

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Example Sentences

In context, however, that Wittgensteinian aphorism is surrounded by thornier reflections on the difficulty of understanding our fellow humans.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2016

The reaction was swift and vociferous, and exactly nobody found my work delightfully Wittgensteinian, although one guy did email the chair of my school’s English department demanding that I be fired.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2016

It's almost as if the stalker-sadist Vaughan looks at humans as walking talking examples of that Wittgensteinian proposal: "Don't ask for the meaning; ask for the use."

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2014

In Wittgensteinian fashion, I shouldn’t advance any thesis—but there is food for thought here.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2011

Shapin and Schaffer, however, want to turn Hobbes into a seventeenth-century Wittgensteinian, someone who believes that all knowledge is conventional and constructed.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton