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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... limit . Mr Wittgenstein would of course reply that his whole theory is applicable unchanged to the totality of such languages . The only retort would be to deny that there is any such totality . The totalities concerning which Mr ...
... limit to thinking we should have to be able to think both sides of this limit ( we should therefore have to be able to think what cannot be thought ) . The limit can , therefore , only be drawn in language and what lies on the other ...
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