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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... function of language is to have meaning , and it only fulfils this function in propor- tion as it approaches to the ideal language which we postulate . The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts . Given the syntax of ...
... function of a proposition is really a truth - function . It follows that if we can define truth - functions generally , we can obtain a general definition of all propositions in terms of the original set of atomic propositions . This ...
... function : hence we can define " p or q , ' since this is the negation of " not - p and not - q , " i.e. of our primitive function . The development of other truth- functions out of " not - p " and " p or q " is given in detail at the ...
... function and also the general form of pro- position . What is meant is somewhat less complicated than it sounds . The symbol is intended to describe a process by the help of which , given the atomic proposi- tions , all others can be ...
... function of atomic propositions ; and that if follows from 9 the meaning of p is contained in the meaning of q , from which of course it results that nothing can be deduced from an atomic proposition . All the propositions of logic , he ...
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