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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... andere kommen und es besser machen . Dagegen scheint mir die Wahrheit der hier mit- geteilten Gedanken unantastbar und definitiv . Ich bin also der Meinung , die Probleme im Wesentlichen endgültig gelöst zu haben . Und wenn ich mich ...
... andere . Jede richtige Zeichen- sprache muss sich in jede andere nach solchen Regeln übersetzen lassen : Dies ist , was sie alle gemeinsam haben . Das , was am Symbol bezeichnet , ist das Gemein- same aller jener Symbole , durch die das ...
... andere wäre . Der Satz bestimmt einen Ort im logischen Raum . Die Existenz dieses logischen Ortes ist durch die Existenz der Bestandteile allein verbürgt , durch die Existenz des sinnvollen Satzes . Das Satzzeichen und die logischen ...
... andere Art und Weise . Die Grammophonplatte , der musikalische Ge- danke , die Notenschrift , die Schallwellen , stehen alle in jener abbildenden internen Beziehung zu einander , die zwischen Sprache und Welt besteht . Ihnen allen ist ...
... zu wissen , ob er wahr ist . ) Man versteht ihn , wenn man seine Bestandteile versteht . Die Übersetzung einer Sprache in eine andere 4.016 4.02 4.021 4.022 4.023 4.024 4.025 imagery of our 66 LOGISCH - PHILOSOPHISCHE ABHANDLUNG.