Wittgenstein por Rudolf Haller

Rudolf Virchow

Virchow was one of the 19th century’s foremost leaders in medicine and pathology. He was also a public health activist, social reformer, politician, and anthropologist. Virchow was the only child of a farmer and city treasurer in Schivelbein, Germany. He had a strong interest in natural science. In 1839, he received a scholarship from the Prussian Military Academy, where he was given the opport...

12 Rudolf Ahlswede ,

One of the basic results in extremal set theory was discovered in [1] and rediscovered in [2]: For a given number of k-element subsets of an n-set the shadow, that is, the set of ( k 1)-element subsets contained in at least one of the specified k-element subsets, is minimal, if the k-element subsets are chosen as an initial segment in the squashed order (see [10]; called colex order in [liD, th...

Rudolf Strijkers INTERNET FACTORIES

Wittgenstein, medicine and neuropsychiatry.

A historical review is presented of the link between Ludwig Wittgenstein, considered the most important philosopher of the 20th century, and medicine, particularly neurology and psychiatry. Wittgenstein worked as a porter at Guy's Hospital in London, and then as a technician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. He wrote about his important insights into language, and neuroscience. It h...

Wittgenstein on Believing

The outlines of Wittgenstein’s conception of propositions can be sketched by means of the following four or five points. First, in 1913 Wittgenstein focuses on whatever it is that judgments have in common that allows them to depict a sense and express a thought. In so doing Wittgenstein is pressing to find a sense or proposition – what is believed in -of concern to logic and independent of psyc...