The Relation between Language and Meaning in analytic philosophy: Focusing on Wittgenstein’s thought

Abstract

Focusing on language and attempting to derive the hidden meanings is one of the most important aspects of analytic philosophy to solve or resolve philosophical problems. All of the three founders of analytic philosophy, i.e. Frege, Russell, and Moore, trace this road differently. Ludwig Wittgenstein as the follower of them has his own ideas. In this paper, we will firstly explore theories of those founders briefly and then show that Wittgenstein, in some respects, such as; pitcher theory, logical atomism, and respecting to ordinary language is in agreement with them. However, he, in other respects, has own specific ideas: the meaning of states of affairs, critic of metaphysics and insisting on the ordinary language in a different manner.

Keywords

• language
• analysis
• Wittegenstin
• Moore
• Russel