WITTGENSTEIN: THE PHILOSOPHY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Abstract

In the first part of this paper presents the notion of the Wittgentein´s philosophy as an activity oriented analysis and clarification of language, is both logical and syntactical appearance as formulated in the Tractatus as his pragmatic aspect as evidenced by the theory of "language games" formulated in the Philosophical Investigations. The second part highlights the importance of Wittgenstein's philosophy of science of the twentieth century, both in its initial phase (the Vienna Circle) and which is known as the “socio-historical turn” (the TS Kuhn) where the notion of "language game" is fundamental for compression Kuhn´s paradigmatic examples" as an essential component of the "disciplinary matrix" or "paradigm".