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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... question . Fourthly , there is the question : what relation must one fact ( such as a sentence ) have to another in order to be capable of being a symbol for that other ? This last is a logical question , and is the one with which Mr ...
... questions of this kind at all , but only state their senselessness . Most questions and propositions of the philosopher result from the fact that we do not understand the logic of our language . They are of the same kind as the question ...
... question of molecular pro- positions which are at first sight not truth - functions , of the propositions that they contain , such , for example as " A believes p . ” Wittgenstein introduces this subject in the statement of his position ...
... question of the meaning of propositions , that is to say , the meaning of propositions is the only non - psycho- logical portion of the problem involved in the analysis of belief . This problem is simply one of a relation of two facts ...
... questions of comparative detail is Mr Wittgenstein's attitude towards the mystical . His attitude upon this grows naturally out of his doctrine in pure logic , according to which the logical proposition is a picture ( true or false ) of ...