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Our new stretch and challenge features will provide you with a wider appreciation of the subject, helping you give more detailed exam answers and tackle university applications. In the first, Steve McCarthy looks at the thinking of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his Tractatus

All major exam boards: Philosophy of religion; Religious language

When we are thinking about philosophers in relation to successfully answering exam questions, we should concern ourselves with their ideas. Their biographies can provide entertainment and may act as aides memoires that help scholars to retain their more abstract theoretical concepts. However, knowing about a philosopher’s life and character is normally surplus to requirements when it comes to succeeding at a religious studies or philosophy course.

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