Conceptual explanation: Born in the context of early analytical philosophy that emphasizes logic and language analysis, Wittgenstein believes that there is a correspondence between language and the world in logical structure, just like images and depicted objects. For example, "the cat is on the mat", "the cat" and "the mat" correspond to real things, "on..." correspond to spatial relationships, and the elements of the proposition map to the factual elements one by one, thereby describing the world.

Meaning and limitations: Meaning is to lay a logical foundation for language analysis, so that philosophy can accurately analyze language expressions, and provide theoretical support for the accurate expression of scientific knowledge. The limitation is that it is too idealized. In actual language application, language expression is flexible and changeable, and it is difficult to fully correspond with fixed logical structures. Language phenomena such as metaphors and symbols are difficult to explain.

Basic view: Influenced by Russell's philosophy, it advocates that the world is composed of logical atoms, and atoms are simple facts that cannot be divided, corresponding to the basic propositions in language, such as "the leaves are green." A composite proposition consists of a basic proposition through logical connections such as "and", "or", "non", such as "the leaves are green and the flowers are red".

Impact on philosophical analysis: Provide philosophical analysis to disassemble complex problems, decompose complex philosophical problems into simple atomic propositions, analyze them one by one, improve the accuracy of philosophical research, and play a role in the early analysis of philosophy's logical reconstruction of scientific theories Important role.

Demarcation of boundaries: Based on the accuracy of logical language, it is believed that natural science propositions can be clearly expressed in logical language, which is said to be said, such as "water boils at 100℃ under standard atmospheric pressure"; ethics, aesthetics, religion, etc., involving values ​​and meanings of life. Content cannot be defined in logical language and cannot be said, such as the "meaning of life".

Philosophical revelation: reminds people to pay attention to language boundaries, avoid meaningless arguments, and guides philosophical thinking toward reflection on language itself. But it also prompted philosophers to think about how to reach the indescribable realm through nonverbal means such as art and religious experience.

Concept: It is a reflection on the early view of language, treating language as an activity closely linked to life, just like a game has its own rules. Daily dialogue is a language game based on daily communication rules. Scientific discussion follows scientific terms and argumentation rules. Poetry creation pursues the rhythm and image expression of language, each with different rules.

Breaking the traditional view of language: breaking the static correspondence between language and the world in the early stage, emphasizing the context of language meaning dependence on use. For example, "bank" has different meanings in the financial context and the river bank context. Only by combining the specific context can we accurately understand it, allowing philosophical research to return to the actual application of life language.

Alternative Essence Theory: In view of the traditional philosophy's pursuit of the universal essence of things, it points out that many concepts have no common essence. Taking the concept of "furniture" as an example, tables, chairs, cabinets, etc. are classified as furniture, and they have similarities in function and form. , but has no common essential characteristics.

The impact on conceptual understanding: Changing the traditional conceptual understanding model, making people realize that the conceptual boundaries are blurred, and they form similar relationships based on life practice, such as the concept of "art". The concept continues to expand, from traditional paintings, sculptures to modern installation art, performance art et al., based on similar aesthetics and expression characteristics were included.

Relationship with language: Language is an organic composition of life forms, and different life forms determine different language game and meaning understanding. In different cultures, due to the differences in life forms, the understanding and language expression of "festivals" are different. Western Christmas and Chinese Spring Festival are very different in language description and cultural connotation.

Philosophical significance: Emphasizes that philosophical research is rooted in life practice. Only by deeply understanding the forms of life under different cultural traditions and social backgrounds can we accurately grasp the meaning of language and the essence of philosophical problems and avoid abstract and empty philosophical discussions.

Early foundation laying: Early philosophy provides core theories and methods for analytical philosophy. Its logical analysis methods and discussion on the relationship between language and the world have become the cornerstone of analytical philosophy research. Russell and other philosophers further develop logical atomism and logical analysis methods on this basis. .

Late-stage turn: Late-stage philosophy prompted the transformation of analytical philosophy from logical analysis to daily language analysis, and the daily linguistic school emerged, such as Austin's research on speech behavior, focusing on daily language rules and context, making analytical philosophy closer to life thinking.

A new perspective on language meaning: Early image theory analyzes language meaning from logical structure, and later language game theory and family similarity from language use, context and life forms, breaking the traditional terminology and conceptualism, such as "truth" Concepts are no longer simply understood from the corresponding correspondence between language and facts, but rather consider their use in games in different languages.

Raise discussion on language philosophy: It triggers extensive discussions in the language philosophy community on issues such as the essence, meaning, and rules of language. philosophers such as Sell innovate on their theoretical basis, such as Sell's indirect speech behavior theory, which promotes the continuous development of language philosophy.

Application in psychology: Influencing psychology's research on thinking, cognition and language relationships, prompting psychology to study human thinking cognition from the perspective of language use and life situations. For example, Vygotsky's social and cultural theory emphasizes language in thinking Role in development.

Inspiration for literary criticism: Provide new ideas for literary criticism, analyze literary works from the perspective of language games and family similarity, break the single meaning interpretation model, such as analyzing the language of characters in novels, and understanding the character's personalities and rules of the language game. Theme of the work.