Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein appears in The Notetaking Cold War as one of the philosophers grouped under the Pragmatists label — alongside William James and Rorty — used to anchor the pragmatist side of the essay’s note-organization-as-philosophy framing.

Context: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher whose work on language, meaning, and “language games” (especially the later Philosophical Investigations) influenced ordinary-language philosophy and pragmatist thought.

Where this appears

• The Notetaking Cold War — cited as an exemplar pragmatist thinker, illustrating the view that categories are useful tools rather than reflections of a fixed essence.