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Philosophical Investigations
by Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [4], 5-xe, 1-232e, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 37s. 6d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text diagrams (some of which are in color). Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe (original German text on the versos, English translation on the rectos). Edited by Rush Rhees and G.E.M. Anscombe. The second edition of the first of Wittgenstein's posthumous works to be published. One of his two monumental philosophical works (the other being Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus). Very light pencil marginalia; jacket toned with an Oxford student's name on the front flap.
Synopsis
Philosophical Investigations (Philosophische Untersuchungen) is, along with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the two most influential works by the 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In it, Wittgenstein discusses numerous problems and puzzles in the fields of semantics, logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of mind.
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- Evening Star Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000013554
- Title
- Philosophical Investigations
- Author
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1958
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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