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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... the musical thought , the score , the waves of sound , all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation which holds between language and the world . To all of them the logical structure is common . ( Like the 10 INTRODUCTION.
... internal qualities . 2.0124 If all objects are given , then thereby are all possible atomic facts also given . 2.013 2.0131 Every thing is , as it were , in a space of possible atomic facts . I can think of this space as empty , but not ...
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