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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... belongs to psychology . Secondly , there is the problem as to what is the relation subsisting between thoughts , words , or sentences , and that which they refer to or mean ; this problem belongs to epistemology . Thirdly , there is the ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein. this belongs to the special sciences dealing with the subject - matter of the sentences in question . Fourthly , there is the question : what relation must one fact ( such as a sentence ) have to another in order to ...
... belongs to what can only be shown , to what is in common between a fact and its logical picture . It results from this view that nothing correct can be said in philosophy . Every philosophical proposition is bad grammar , and the best ...
... belong to logic . The method of generation which has just been described , enables Wittgenstein to say that all propositions can be constructed in the above manner from atomic propositions , and in this way the totality of pro ...
... belong to every thing by a logical necessity . It has been sought to find such a property in self - identity , but the conception of identity is subjected by Wittgenstein to a destructive criticism from which there seems no escape . The ...