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"The determinancy of logic in Wittgenstein's ""Tractatus"""
Wittgenstein's Tractatus seems committed to the determinacy of logic in two forms: the logical properties of truth-functionally complex propositions mirror the logical structure of reality, and the logical properties of names mirror the logical properties of things named. Chapter One argues that …
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Wittgenstein's tractatus and the limits of language
… of his conception of language. In both the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein attempts to articulate a conception of language by exploring its essence - that is, its structure and function. What this amounts to is giving an account of the limit …
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The 'Tractatus Super Psalmum Vicesimum' of Richard Rolle of Hampole
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What can be shown, cannot be said: Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy in the Tractatus and the Investigations
… conception of philosophy in both the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and the Philosophical Investigations (1953). Wittgenstein said that the Investigations should be read in conjunction with the Tractatus. To understand the Tractatus we must understand the say-show distinction: …
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"Cronica der Turckey" Sebastian Franck's Translation of the "Tractatus de Moribus, Condicionibus et Nequitia Turcorum" by Georgius de Hungaria
The Tractatus de moribus, condicionibus et nequitia Turcorum is one of the most important first-hand accounts of life in fifteenth-century Turkey known to modern scholarship. It is the work of a Christian former slave of the Turks, writing after his return to the West. Although the author does not …
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Wittgenstein, éthique et esthétique
… les vues ethiques et esthetiques que delimite le Tractatus sont consistantes et que Wittgenstein, bien qu'il ne revienne pas sur elles par la suite, ne les reniera pas non plus et cela alors meme qu'il remettra en question des pans entiers de l'ontologie du Tractatus.
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"Logic is a geometry of thinking". Space and Spatial Frameworks in Wittgenstein's Writings
… in the 19th century enabled Wittgenstein in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to extend this formal account and to devise his concept of “logical space” as a universal and necessary manifold for all meaningful states-of-affairs. After his return to philosophy in 1929, he holds up the idea that …
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Images of entanglement : Wittgensteinian spatial practices between architecture and philosophy
… the early work most strongly associated with his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) and the later frequently designated by his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953). Following the completion of the early work Wittgenstein abandoned philosophy for a period of ten years, …
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Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hermann Broch: The Need for Fiction and Logic in Moral Philosophy
… life. Broch was influenced by Wittgenstein's Tractatus and anticipates some important ideas from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. This study looks at how Wittgensteinian themes influenced, or have parallels to, Broch's theoretical and literary writings.
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The concept of a non-rational foundation of meaning with reference to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
… preliminary writings in preparation for the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and offer an excellent insight into the so-called 'early period' of his thought. The writing carefully documents the extraordinary way in which the philosopher grappled with the problems current at the time with …
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Wittgenstein and his students, 1912-1968
… From the 1922 publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the 1968 founding of the Wittgenstein Manuscripts Archive at Cornell University, Cambridge graduates worked to elevate discussions of Wittgenstein’s talks on the “logic of our language” to new heights of public …
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The treatment of the problem of privacy in Wittgenstein's later writings
… attention at the moment, viz. the unity of the Tractatus and the later.works. But I refer rather to the fittedness of Wittgenstein's philosophical activity to his domain of interest - conceptual investigations. In these investigations he discovers no new fact, gives no new piece of information. …
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Books of advice for princes in fifteenth century England with particular reference to the period 1450-1485
… specially composed for a prince. The anonymous Tractatus de Regimine Principuin, Ashby's Active Policy of a Prince and the Fastolf/Worcester production, the Boke of Noblesse are largely original works. Their contents are subjected to a more extended analysis and the view of good princely …
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Ritual and religion: Responses to positivism
… the Vienna Circle's writings, Wittgenstein's Tractatus is not open to the charge of reductivism, and that its influence on the Circle was far more limited than is commonly thought. Part 2 works out the implications of the positivist approach for an understanding of (i) 'superstitious' beliefs …
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Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein on existence and negative existentials
… to have realised. As to the Wittgenstein of the *Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus* (1921), I argue that he can be interpreted in two ways depending on how one understands the Tractarian analysis of propositions involving definite descriptions. On one interpretation, Wittgenstein’s theory of …
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Music in Reality The relation of music, emotion and Pre-Socratic myth
… is related to parts of Wittgenstein 's Tractatus logico-philosophicus.
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Wittgenstein and the Grammar of Physics: A Study of Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1929-1930 Manuscripts and the Roots of His Later Philosophy
… manuscripts he had kept since completing the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP) in 1918. The impetus for this was his conviction that the logic of the TLP was flawed: it was unable to account for the fact that a proposition that assigns a single value on a continuum to a simple object …
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Lexical meaning and propositional representation : an investigation into the problem of the unity of the proposition
… to the unity problem as presented in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and how these may be interpreted as offering a partial advance to the unity problem over the solutions previously considered. Then, in chapter 4, I move on to assess some recent solutions which, influenced by both …
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Sir John Marsham (1602-1685) and the History of Scholarship
… $\textit{Principia}$, or Spinoza’s $\textit{Tractatus Theologico-Politicus}$, it was one of the many books printed during this period which changed the way Europeans thought about their world. Because of this, the $\textit{Chronicus canon}$ defies easy classification, and has little in common …
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