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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... rules of syntax which prevent nonsense , and has single symbols which always have a definite and unique meaning . Mr Wittgenstein is concerned with the conditions for a logically perfect language - not that any language is logically ...
... rules of philosophical grammar , but this is unavoidable at the outset . " Most propositions and questions that have been written about philosophical matters are not false but senseless . We cannot , therefore , answer questions of this ...
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