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After Wittgenstein

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

N. H. G. Robinson
Affiliation:
Professor of Divinity, University of St Andrews

Extract

In recent years the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein have received much attention from philosophers in general and especially from philosophers interested in religion; and there is no doubt that Wittgenstein's legacy of thought is both highly suggestive and highly problematical. It seems likely, however, that the vogue which Wittgenstein now enjoys owes not a little to his peculiar place in the development of modern philosophy and, in particular, of that empiricist tradition in philosophy which stems from what has been called the revolution in philosophy in the early decades of the present century.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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page 505 note 1 Ibid. p. 87; cf. pp. 96, 98.

page 505 note 2 Ibid. pp. 138, 136, 273, 308.

page 505 note 3 Ibid. p. 341; cf. pp. 354, 454, 514, 519.

page 505 note 4 Cf. Ibid. p. 167.

page 505 note 5 Ibid. pp. 140, 141, 151, 167, 94; cf. pp. 102, 105.

page 505 note 6 Ibid. pp. 618; cf. p. 627.

page 506 note 1 Ibid. p. 110; cf. pp. 204, 344.

page 506 note 2 Ibid. p. 460.

page 506 note 3 Ibid. pp. 235, 628.