Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A Dialectical Interpretation"The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up until now has intangibly weighed down our consciousness." Would Wittgenstein have been willing to describe the Tractatus as an attempt to find "the liberating word"? This is the basic contention of this strikingly innovative new study of the Tractatus. Matthew Ostrow argues that, far from seeking to offer a new theory in logic in the tradition of Frege and Russell, Wittgenstein from the very beginning viewed all such endeavors as the ensnarement of thought. |
Contents
Pictures and logical atomism | 21 |
What is analysis? | 46 |
The essence of the proposition | 79 |
The liberating word | 125 |
Notes | 137 |
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affairs analysis appear assertion atomic facts attempt Bedeutung Begriffsschrift bring central characterization claim class of propositions complete concerned connection constitute context context principle depict describe Diamond discussion distinction elementary propositions entity example existence and nonexistence expression Fogelin formal concept Frege and Russell Fregean fundamental genstein given idea interpretation kind language Logical Atomism logical constants logical form logical picture logical proposition logical space means metaphysical nature nonsense notation Notebooks notion object particular philosophical pictorial elements pictorial form picture theory picture's possibility present priori problem propositional function propositional sign propositional variable propositions of logic question reality relation remarks represent Russell's Russellian seen sense sentence Sheffer stroke significant simply sition solipsism sort spatial speak specification stein suggest suppose symbol tautology term text's theory of types things thought tion Tractarian Tractatus truth truth functions truth table ultimately understand variable whole Wittgen Wittgenstein words
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Page 3 - My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent...
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The Third Wittgenstein: The Post-investigations Works Danièle Moyal-Sharrock No preview available - 2004 |