Signs of sense: reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2001)
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This work seeks to shed light on one of the most enigmatic masterpieces of twentieth-century thought.

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B3376.W563.T7333 2001

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0674003098   0674418166

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10.4159/harvard.9780674418172
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Preface

Introduction Figures of Writing

1. Logic Apart

2. The Form of Objects

3. “We Make to Ourselves Pictures of Facts”

4. Signs and Sense

5. The Symbolic Order

6. The Grammar of Analysis

7. Making Sense and Recognizing Meaning

8. Subject and World

9. Ethics in Language

10. A Demanding Silence

11. On Some Central Debates Concerning the Tractatus

12. On Wittgenstein’s Dissatisfaction with the Tractatus

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