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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... tion as it approaches to the ideal language which we postulate . The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts . Given the syntax of a language , the meaning of a sentence is determinate as soon as the meaning of the ...
... tion . All atomic propositions are logically independent of each other . No atomic proposition implies any other or is inconsistent with any other . Thus the whole business of logical inference is concerned with propositions which not ...
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