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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... simple , and never the same name for two different simples . A name is a simple symbol in the sense that it has no parts which are them- selves symbols . In a logically perfect language nothing that is not simple will have a simple ...
... simple or have empirical knowledge of it . It is a logical necessity demanded by theory , like an electron . His ground for maintaining that there must be simples is that every complex presupposes a fact . It is not necessarily assumed ...
... simple . Every statement about complexes can be analysed into a statement about their constituent parts , and into those propositions which completely describe the complexes . Objects form the substance of the world . Therefore they ...
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