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The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that was published during his lifetime.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1921
The feeling of life as a limited whole is what Wittgenstein calls "the mystical." The only correct method in philosophy is to remain silent about philosophical questions, and to point out to anyone who tries to talk philosophy that he or she is talking nonsense.
Nov 13, 2015 · To get the briefest handle on his thought on the question of the meaning of life, we will ruminate briefly upon the haunting lines that conclude his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus opposes Frege and Russell’s universalist conception of logic. In the universalist view, logic is the supremely general set of laws, the foundation on which the edifice of knowledge is built. Wittgenstein, by contrast, argues that logic is not a set of laws at all.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by F. P. Ramsey and edited by C. K. Ogden, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. The original used a lower-case 'v' for the logical or operator; it has been replaced with the correct '∨' character.
Nov 8, 2002 · Considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein played a central, if controversial, role in mid-20th-century analytic philosophy. He continues to influence, and incur debate in, current philosophical thought in topics as diverse as logic and language, perception and intention, ethics and religion ...
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Jul 12, 2023 · In this article, we will explore this difference and give an analysis of Wittgenstein’s most influential early work: the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (henceforth referred to as Tractatus).
