Talk:Ludwig Wittgenstein

message: Section 1906 - 1913 "University", subsection "Engineering at Berlin and Manchester", second to last paragraph. Where it says "It was at this time that he became interested in the foundations of mathematics, particularly after reading Bertrand Russell's The Principles of Mathematics (1903), and Gottlob Frege's The Foundations of Arithmetic, vol. 1 (1893) and vol. 2 (1903)." 
"The Foundations of Arithmetic" was published as a single volume in 1884. The text that Frege published in two volumes, one in 1893 and the second in 1903 was "The Basic Laws of Arithmetic", or Grundgesetze der Arithmetik in german. Although the titles are similar, these books are entirely different.
According to Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein, The Duty of Genius, chapter 2 "Manchester", it was indeed the Grundgesetze that Wittgenstein had read, since this is the book that Russell references in "The Principles of Mathematics". Cazoix (talk) 21:20, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect information in the article. 

message: This article is mentioned (as one of several examples) in a discussion about citation style, at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources. To accompany it, I've added the  you'll find above among the talk headers. Please leave it for the time being, until that discussion stabilizes or is archived, and then it can be removed again if desired. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:10, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation style 

message: Any computer programming language that you create programs with is based on Wittgenstein's logic but also the structure that you have to understand. A logic where e.g. if A applies then B does not apply e.g. in statements like if(), for() and while().
I also see it as, for example, a storyboard for a film or book that we are working on today, could not have been like that without Wittgenstein.
The whole of modern linguistics has made enormous progress in the last 100 years with the help of Wittgenstein.
However, one area that could be renewed and revolutionized through the application of Wittgenstein's efforts is law, where there is a fundamental problem and that is the understanding of legislation and what meaning it has and how it could logically be constructed so that it is not communicating not just for the lawyers but also, government officials, individuals and not least politicians.
The second reason for rewriting the entire statute book is the last 50 years of advances in information technology where modern web-based means can create a much more accessible legislation. But also which is integrated in e.g. computer-supported processing systems in the exercise of authority in state and municipality.
I perceive it as the legal profession seeing their jobs threatened by changes. Which is a major safety risk to the public. Zzalpha (talk) 23:01, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think it should probably be written about how Wittgenstein affects everyday life today, what practical meaning his efforts have. 

message: Was the line about Wittgenstein's Catholic grandma supposed to read "She was an aunt of the Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich Hayek on his maternal side"? A nephew is a relative through one's sibling, which makes "maternal side" a senseless modifier. HermannusAlemannus (talk) 10:30, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "She was an aunt of the Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich Hayek on her maternal side" 

message: I have two questions:
* How do you translate "picture theory" as in picture theory of language? what is the actual German word used here (Bildtheorie)? Was "Bildtheorie" ever used by Wittgenstein?
* Why is there no mention of Heinrich Hertz in this article or the picture theory one? Apparently Wittgenstein was inspired by him.
Philosophy is not my field but I can help find sources if that is what is missing. ReyHahn (talk) 19:36, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I just noticed that question two is answered by the infobox under "influences". However the question now goes into why some of those names are not named in this article or in any of the articles related to his work.--ReyHahn (talk) 09:46, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hertz and Bildtheorie