Philosophical Investigations

Title: Philosophical Investigations

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Publisher: Pearson

Publication Year: 1953

ISBN: 0024288101

In the posthumous Philosophical Investigations (1953), Wittgenstein advocated that, in solving philosophical problems, an understanding of how language is used is more important than its abstract meaning (i.e., the context in which a sentence is uttered may be more useful in determining its meaning than its innate semantic.