Summer crossword

Welcome to the LWP's Wittgenstein-themed crossword. Let's play a language game!

Place your cursor in a cell to start typing. Find the clues below. Use the "Check your answers" button to track your progress. The experience is better on desktop.

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3. Wittgenstein at first wanted to shape his philosophical investigations into a book, but in the end the book turned out to be only an…

6. That the world exists is…

8. What must any imagined world and the real one have in common?

11. Showing the fly the way out of the fly-bottle is philosophy’s…

12. For a large class of cases, the meaning of a word is its… in the language.

14. If you and a king of a tribe, brought up in the belief that the world began with him, were to meet and discuss, could you really prove your belief to be the right one? Or would you just bring him to look at the world in a different way as the result of a…?

15. In aesthetics ‘cause’ is a misleading expression because it reminds us of experiments and statistics or mechanism, while it means…

16. According to the Philosophical Investigations, what does the understanding get by running its head up against the limits of language?

18. Which objects of comparison are meant to throw light on the facts of our language not only by similarities, but also by dissimilarities?

20. Without a method of projection, the same image could fit both a triangular prism and a…

22. The judgment ‘You play tennis pretty badly’ is…

23. Our picture of the world is the inherited… against which we distinguish between true and false.

25. What leaves everything as it is?

27. What is the name of Wittgenstein’s pianist brother?

28. Obeying a rule is a…

30. Philosophy is not a theory but an…

31. The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is dedicated to the memory of…

33. Who is the American philosopher, friend and disciple of Wittgenstein, who wrote Moore and Ordinary Language?

34. Who was the intuitionist mathematician whose 1928 lecture led Wittgenstein to return to philosophy?

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1. What does Wittgenstein consider an end in itself and not merely a propaedeutic for constructing a building?

2. Which saint gives a misleading picture of the nature of human language?

4. What kind of job did Wittgenstein want to do when he considered moving to USSR?

5. A proposition of which I cannot imagine the opposite is a… proposition

7. According to its preface, the Tractatus logico-philosophicus is not a…

8. If you were a recalcitrant pupil, you would continue the series n + 2 after 1000 with one thousand and…

9. Where did Wittgenstein study engineering in the UK?

10. Who is a bourgeois thinker, according to Wittgenstein?

13. Who is Wittgenstein’s most famous biographer?

14. When we talk of a Beethoven symphony or a Gothic cathedral, we are not talking about…

16. ‘Mr. N. N. is dead’ would be nonsensical if the meaning of the name were its…

17. The possibility of the language-game does not depend on everything being… that can be…

19. It is remarkable that in real life, when… judgements are made, … adjectives such as ‘beautiful’, ‘fine’, etc., hardly play any role at all.

21. The judgment ‘You are behaving like a beast’ is…

24. Where was Wittgenstein imprisoned in Italy?

25. For Wittgenstein, European and American civilization is characterized by…

26. What is one and the same as aesthetics?

27. Who did Wittgenstein threaten with a poker?

29. Propositions exempt from doubt are, as it were, … on which our language-games turn.

30. Which woman philosopher was among Wittgenstein’s literary executors?

32. What is the totality of facts? The…

About the author

Giulia Marcobello

Giulia Marcobello is a Master's student in Philosophy at the University of Turin. Her research interests have recently expanded from the philosophy of science (specifically the problem of structural realism) to the study of Kantian traces in Wittgenstein's thought.