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Perspective voyage · 1945 and 1953

Later Wittgenstein — Words at work in activities

Can the meaning of the same word be explained only by pairing it with one object?

The question that moves this idea

How do words point to the world?

Instead of memorizing a conclusion, follow the evidence scenes to see what this perspective distinguishes and where its explanation stops.

Scene 1 / 7Evidence-linked account

The preface to Philosophical Investigations is dated Cambridge, January 1945, and the work was published posthumously in German and English by Basil Blackwell in Oxford in 1953.

Open evidence for this scene

This sentence is an editorial paraphrase linked to the listed sources, not a direct quotation.

  • Philosophische Untersuchungen

    Ludwig Wittgenstein · German text reproducing Suhrkamp Werkausgabe 1 (1999), pages 231–485

    Locator: Preface: Cambridge, January 1945

    Open source

  • Philosophical Investigations

    Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953 · Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1953; WorldCat record OCLC 301079

    Locator: Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1953

    Open source

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: Section 3.2

    Open source

Time × place

Where the idea met time and place

We do not invent a birthplace for an idea. Only evidence-backed events such as writing, publication, teaching, and reception appear here.

Keep the voyage moving

Where should this perspective lead?

Enter the judgment scene

Compare this perspective with three others on the same cases.

Enter the judgment scene

Open the person’s full voyage

Restore the period, works, and places behind the single claim.

Open the person’s full voyage

Return to the work

Read the claim inside its argument and publication or reception history.

Return to the work