Tractatus Logico-philosophicusThe Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) (Latin for Logical Philosophical Treatise or Treatise on Logic and Philosophy) is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that was published during his lifetime. The project had a broad goal: to identify the relationship between language and reality and to define the limits of science. It is recognized by philosophers as a significant philosophical work of the twentieth century. G. E. Moore originally suggested the work's Latin title as homage to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza. Wittgenstein wrote the notes for the Tractatus while he was a soldier during World War I and completed it during a military leave in the summer of 1918. It was first published in German in 1921 as Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung. The Tractatus was influential chiefly amongst the logical positivist philosophers of the Vienna Circle, such as Rudolf Carnap and Friedrich Waismann. Bertrand Russell's article "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism" is presented as a working out of ideas that he had learned from Wittgenstein. The Tractatus employs an austere and succinct literary style. The work contains almost no arguments as such, but rather consists of declarative statements, or passages, that are meant to be self-evident. The statements are hierarchically numbered, with seven basic propositions at the primary level (numbered 1-7), with each sub-level being a comment on or elaboration of the statement at the next higher level (e.g., 1, 1.1, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13). In all, the Tractatus comprises 526 numbered statements. Wittgenstein's later works, notably the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations, criticised many of his earlier ideas in the Tractatus. |
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... Tautologie , im zweiten Fall eine Kontradiktion . Der Satz zeigt was er sagt , die Tautologie und die Kontradiktion , dass sie nichts sagen . Die Tautologie hat keine Wahrheitsbe- dingungen , denn sie ist bedingungslos wahr ; und 4.45 ...
... tautology , in the second case a contradiction . The proposition shows what it says , the tautology and the contradiction that they say nothing . The tautology has no truth - conditions , for it is 4.4611 4.462 4.463 4.464 4.465 die ...
... Tautologie und Kontradiktion sind aber nicht unsinnig ; sie gehören zum Symbolismus , und zwar ähnlich wie die „ o " zum Symbolismus der Arithmetik . Tautologie und Kontradiktion sind nicht Bilder der Wirklichkeit . Sie stellen keine ...
... Tautology and contradiction are , however , not senseless ; they are part of the symbolism , in the same way that " o " is part of the symbolism of Arithmetic . Tautology and contradiction are not pictures of the reality . They present ...
... Tautologie und Kontradiktion sind die Grenzfälle der Zeichenverbindung , nämlich ihre Auflösung . Freilich sind auch in der Tautologie und Kon- tradiktion die Zeichen noch mit einander verbun- den , d . h . sie stehen in Beziehungen zu ...