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                                                                                            Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most important since  Immanuel Kant . His early work was influenced by that of  Arthur Schopenhauer  and, especially, by his teacher  Bertrand Russell  and by  Gottlob Frege , who became something of a friend. This work culminated in the  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , the only philosophy book that Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. It claimed to solve all the major problems of philosophy and was held in especially high esteem by the anti-metaphysical  logical positivists . The...