Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusAustrian philosopher LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN (1889-1951) was hugely influential on 20th-century philosophy, and here, he constructs a series of carefully and precisely numbered propositions on the relationship between language, logic, and reality, using a numbering system to show nested relationships between the propositions. Considered one of the major recent works of philosophy-a reputation enhanced, undoubtedly, by Bertrand Russell's glowing introduction-this edition is a reproduction of the translation by C.K. Ogden, first published in 1922, for which Wittgenstein himself assisted in the preparation of the English-language manuscript. Students of philosophy and those fascinated by the history of ideas will want a copy of this essential volume. |
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... logical structure of propositions and the nature of logical inference are first dealt with . Thence we pass successively to Theory of Knowledge , Principles of Physics , Ethics , and finally the Mystical ( das Mystische ) . In order to ...
... logical structure of propositions and the nature of logical inference are first dealt with . Thence we pass successively to Theory of Knowledge , Principles of Physics , Ethics , and finally the Mystical ( das Mystische ) . In order to ...
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... propositions and questions that have been written about philosophical ... logic of our language . They are of the same kind as the question whether ... proposition and the fact must have in common , if the proposition is to assert the ...
... propositions and questions that have been written about philosophical ... logic of our language . They are of the same kind as the question whether ... proposition and the fact must have in common , if the proposition is to assert the ...
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... logical " constants " are not represented by signs , but are themselves present in the proposition as in the fact ... propositions , ' but to make propositions clear . Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which ...
... logical " constants " are not represented by signs , but are themselves present in the proposition as in the fact ... propositions , ' but to make propositions clear . Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which ...
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