European Journal of Philosophy 15 (3):367-394 (2007)
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This paper is concerned with the status of a symbol in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. It is claimed in the first section that a Tractarian symbol, whilst essentially a syntactic entity to be distinguished from the mark or sound that is its sign, bears its semantic significance only inessentially. In the second and third sections I pursue this point of exegesis through the Tractarian discussions of nonsense and the context principle respectively. The final section of the paper places the forgoing work in a secondary context, addressing in particular a debate regarding the realism of the Tractatus
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Keywords | Journal Article Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Philosophy Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951 Logic Symbolic and mathematical |
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DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2007.00253.x |
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