wittgenstein
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born twentieth-century philosopher noted for the idea of "family resemblance" as that which individual objects of a sense of a term have in common.
Example Sentences
- "Thus we might ask Wittgenstein and Phillips if the structure of family resemblance does not dissolve the dichotomy of internal/external to which their semantic and criteriologic pragmatic contextualism is connected."
Etymology
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.