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Wittgenstein wrote both the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations.
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Is it true that Wittgenstein wrote both the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations?
Yes. A dictionary entry states Wittgenstein wrote two influential classics, the Tractatus and the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations, and other reference works attribute both books to him.
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What Wittgenstein Wrote. (1999). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1852-3_7
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Wittgenstein, L. (1998). Wittgenstein's Tractatus. books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=_TwdAQAAMAAJ&dq=Wittgenstein+wrote+both+the+Tractatus+and+Philosophical+Investigations.&hl=&as_pt=BOOKS&source=gbs_api
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Questions about the relationship between Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and Tractatus. (2019). philosophy.stackexchange.com. https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/60558/questions-about-the-relationship-between-wittgensteins-philosophical-investigat
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). (n.d.). plato.stanford.edu. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (n.d.). iep.utm.edu. https://iep.utm.edu/wittgens/
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus
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Heinrich-Ramharter, E., Pichler, A., & Stadler, F. (2025). 100 Years of ›Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus‹ – 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death. play.google.com. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=vRtJEQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_api
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Wittgenstein's world-picture. (2020). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.48336/z7gh-1e70
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Wittgenstein — A Dictionary Entry. (1991). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21639-0_18
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Ingeborg Bachmann’s Conception and Mediation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus in the 1950s: Towards a Poetics of Silence. (2026). hal.science. https://hal.science/hal-05756247v1
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