Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis. In proclaiming philosophy as a matter of logic rather than of metaphysics, Wittgenstein created a sensation among intellectual circles that influenced the development of logical positivism and changed the direction of 20th-century thought. |
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... affairs could be made to fit . If things can occur in atomic facts , this possi- bility must already lie in them . ( A logical entity cannot be merely possible . Logic treats of every possibility , and all possi- bilities are its facts ...
... affairs . The possibility of its occurrence in atomic facts is the form of the object . The object is simple . Every statement about complexes can be analysed into a statement about their constituent parts , and into those propositions ...
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