European Journal of Philosophy 18 (3):425-442 (2010)
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I discuss the account of logical consequence advanced in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. I argue that the role that elementary propositions are meant to play in this account can be used to explain two remarkable features that Wittgenstein ascribes to them: that they are logically independent from one another and that their components refer to simple objects. I end with a proposal as to how to understand Wittgenstein's claim that all propositions can be analysed as truth functions of elementary propositions
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Keywords | Wittgenstein, L. Tractatus Logical consequence |
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DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00353.x |
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. C. M. Colombo & Bertrand Russell - 1922 - Fratelli Bocca.
The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry Into the Concept of Number.Gottlob Frege - 1950 - Northwestern University Press.
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