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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... figure may be projected in many ways : each of these ways corresponds to a different language , but the projective properties of the original figure remain unchanged whichever of these ways may be adopted . These projective properties ...
... figures as numbers of the separate propositions indicate the logical importance of the propositions , the emphasis laid upon them in my exposition . The propositions n . 1 , n.2 , n . 3 , etc. , are comments on proposition No. n ; the ...
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