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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... represented by the fact that in the picture its elements have a certain relation to one another . " In the picture and ... represent it after its manner - rightly or falsely - is its form of representation " ( 2.161 , 2.17 ) . A We speak ...
... representing a fact rests upon the fact that in it objects are represented by signs . The so - called logical " constants " are not represented by signs , but are themselves present in the proposition as in the fact . The proposition ...
... represented in mathematical logic by the words " fx is false for all values of x . " The negation of this would be the proposition " there is at least one x for which fr is true " which is represented by " ( x ) .fx . " If we had ...
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