Is the Numbering System in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus a Joke?

Journal of Philosophical Research 21:139-148 (1996)
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Many commentators have dismissed Wittgenstein’s numbering system in the Tractatus as either incoherent or a joke. In this paper I offer a way to rehabilitate the system along the lines of Wittgenstein’s own instructions. Reading the Tractatus in this way not only offers a way to make sense of the numbering, but also offers a significant improvement in examining the meaning of the text.

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10.5840/jpr_1996_23

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