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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... described if all atomic facts are known , together with the fact that these are all of them . The world is not described by merely naming all the objects in it ; it is necessary also to know the atomic facts of which these objects are ...
... 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- positions is defined . ( The apparent exceptions which we mentioned ...
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