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Vickenstein published only one book in his lifetime,

The Traptatus Logico Philosophagus. Shortly after it came out, he began

to have second thoughts about some of its fundamental tenets, thoughts which eventually

ended up in his philosophical investigations.

At this stage he was teaching primary school children in southern Austria

and becoming interested in how language was actually used

rather than in its underlying logical form.

The distinguished philosopher Romharae, who's still teaching into his ninth decade and who divides

his time between Oxford and Georgetown, says this marks a crucial phase in contemporary philosophy, the linguistic turn.

Romhare, welcome to Philosophy Bites. Thank you very much. I'm glad to be here.

The topic we're going to focus on is the linguistic turn in philosophy.

Could you just begin by saying what the linguistic turn was and is?

Well we have to go back to the beginning of the 20th century and the two great figures of that

area, Bertrand Russell and Lubbly Bookenstein. Russell came up with a quite brilliant idea

that most philosophical problems could be resolved by bringing to light

the logical form of the propositions in which they were expressed. Of course this

involved various assumptions

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