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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... shows , as I believe , that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language . Its whole meaning could be summed up somewhat as follows : What can be said at all can be said clearly ...
... this , then the value of this work secondly consists in the fact that it shows how little has been done when these problems have been solved . I I.I I.II 1.12 1.13 1.2 I.21 2 2.01 2.0II 882 TRACTATUS LOGICO - PHILOSOPHICUS.
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