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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... space are the world . The world divides into facts . Any one can either be the case or not be the case , and everything else remain the same . What is the case , the fact , is the existence of atomic facts . An atomic fact is a ...
... space of possible atomic facts . I can think of this space as empty , but not of the thing without the space . A spatial object must lie in infinite space . ( A point in space is an argument place . ) A speck in a visual field need not ...
... Space , time and colour ( colouredness ) are forms of objects . Only if there are objects can there be a fixed form of the world . The fixed , the existent and the object are one . 2.0271 The object is the fixed , the existent ; the con ...
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