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	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length work published by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime.
		Moore, and is a homage to Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Benedictus Spinoza.
		Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was influential, chiefly amongst the logical positivists, but it has stimulated many other philosophers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tractatus (1518 words)

	Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the completion of the Tractatus, Wittgenstein believed he had solved all the problems of philosophy, and he abandoned his studies, working as a schoolteacher, a gardener at a monastery, and an architect, along with Paul Engelmann, on his sister's new house in Vienna.
		He was educated in the methods of the Austrian School Reform Movement which advocated the stimulation of the natural curiosity of children and their development as independent thinkers, instead of just letting them memorize facts.
		The Tractatus had been tremendously influential to the development of the Vienna positivism, and although Schlick never succeeded in drawing Wittgenstein into the discussions of the Vienna Circle itself, he and some of his fellow circle members (especially Friedrich Waismann) met occasionally with Wittgenstein to discuss philosophical topics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein (5762 words)

	Ludwig Wittgenstein
		The Tractatus, on this stance, beyond telling the reader about the ineffable (metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, logical form, pictorial form, etc.), is a part of the ineffable as well, and should be recognized as such.
		The complex edifice of the Tractatus is built on the assumption that the task of logical analysis was to discover the elementary propositions, whose form was not yet known.
		Although the Tractatus precludes philosophical theories, it does construct a systematic edifice which results in the general form of the proposition, all the while relying on strict formal logic; the Investigations points out the therapeutic non-dogmatic nature of philosophy, verily instructing philosophers in the ways of therapy.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/wittgenstein (7586 words)

	20th WCP: Tractarian Dualism
		Not until later in the Tractatus does Wittgenstein explicitly mention the subject, the "I" to whom the sense of a proposition might be shown.
		The point is that the epistemological dimension implicit in the Tractatus is more prominent in Frege's work and trails with it distinctions of Cartesian caliber between an inner mental world of thought and experience and an outer one of objects and events.
		The Tractatus appears comfortable with this approach, at least to the extent of identifying objects as the meanings of simple signs, but in the case of more complicated mental acts such as understanding and believing it offers only reproaches.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Meta/MetaTull.htm (3429 words)

	Ludwig Wittgenstein [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The Tractatus is based on the idea that philosophical problems arise from misunderstandings of the logic of language, and it tries to show what this logic is. Wittgenstein's later work, principally his Philosophical Investigations, shares this concern with logic and language, but takes a different, less technical, approach to philosophical problems.
		In the Tractatus he says at 4.111 that "philosophy is not one of the natural sciences," and at 4.112 "Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts." Philosophy is not descriptive but elucidatory.
		The Vienna Circle logical positivists were greatly impressed by what they found in the Tractatus, especially the idea that logic and mathematics are analytic, the verifiability principle and the idea that philosophy is an activity aimed at clarification, not the discovery of facts.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/w/wittgens.htm (6909 words)

	Peter of Spain
		The second part of the Tractatus comprises subjects that were of major importance in the doctrine of the properties of terms.
		The seventh tract of the Tractatus, on fallacies, which forms part of the Aristotelian-Boethian logic, is written in the tradition of the Fallacie maiores (Major fallacies).
		The ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth tracts of the Tractatus, i.e.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/peter-spain (5606 words)

	20th WCP: On Naming and Possibility in Kripke and in the Tractatus
		For this reason, in the Tractatus the foundation lies in the notion of form; and form is considered within the framework of the relationship between name, proposition and language, and the corresponding relation between object, state of affairs and world.
		Nonetheless, Wittgenstein establishes in the Tractatus that ordinary names, names of complexes, mean via their definitions; that is, in order for the sense of propositions to be determined, it is necessary to analyze all the expressions in it.
		In the Tractatus, logical space, the set of possibilities of combination of objects, is given; and, as a result of the the simplicity of objects, the set of possible combinations lacks any foundation at all.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Lang/LangCere.htm (3444 words)

	Tutkijaseminaari - Filosofian laitokset
		She does not consider the 5.473's in the Tractatus which I claim that she considers to be meaningful and true to be meaningful.
		Diamond might argue as follows: When she turns to the 5.473's in the Tractatus her aim is only to lay bare that there is in the Tractatus no scope for a distinction between sentences which are simply nonsensical and others which while being nonsensical have the function of showing something determinate, deep but ineffable.
		This is the typical feature of the Tractatus: whenever we think we have climbed the ladder which is the Tractatus to the point of 6.54 where we can throw away the ladder we find ourselves clinging to one further rung of the ladder which we will again have to recognize as meaningless.
	www.helsinki.fi /filosofia/tutkijaseminaari/wallgren.htm (10553 words)

	Wittgenstein
		(Tractatus 2.1) These thoughts are, in turn, expressed in propostitions, whose form indicates the position of these facts within the nature of reality as a whole and whose content presents the truth-conditions under which they correspond to that reality.
		(Tractatus 4) Everything that is true—that is, all the facts that constitute the world—can in principle be expressed by atomic sentences.
		This is the major theme of the Tractatus as a whole: since propositions merely express facts about the world, propositions in themselves are entirely devoid of value.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/6s.htm (1482 words)

	Ludwig Wittgenstein In a nutshell / Wittgenstein Overview / Overview of Wittgenstein / Wittenstein Summary / Summary ...
		The first VIEW was his introvert dissertation "Tractatus logico-philosophicus" (1922), written as Austrian student in England, and finished in an Italian prison camp (See map of Europe before WWI).
		Nevertheless the “Tractatus” remains brilliant and without the essential assumption remarkably but also to be expected shows precisely the same relative view on logic that Wittgenstein expresses in “Investigations” (Compare with my article
		(Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 4.5): "The general form of propositions is: This is how things are." That is the kind of proposition that one repeats to oneself countless times.
	huizen.daxis.nl /~henkt/wittgenstein-overview.htm (1140 words)

	Amazon.com: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The `Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' by Ludwig Wittgenstein is easily the second most important philosophical work of the twentieth century, the most important being Wittgenstein's second major work, the `Philosophical Investigations'.
		The answer to this question is probably in an understanding of the nature of philosophical discourse itself, and this is at the root of Wittgenstein's doctrines in both his Tractatus and his Investigations.
		Oddly enough, while the Tractatus is purely a work of some of the most insightful philosophy done in the Western tradition, the similarity between its findings and some of the tenants of Zen Buddhism is striking.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415254086?v=glance (2641 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein : Philosophy : Tractatus (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		The first phase, expressed in the Tractatus, posits a close, formal relationship between language, thought, and the world; there is a direct logical correspondence between the configurations of simple objects in the world, thoughts in the mind, and words in language.
		Thus the shape of ideas in the mind and the relationship of words in a sentence are identical in form with the structure of reality or "state of affairs" they represent.
		The structures of language and thought could indicate, but not represent, their very correspondence to reality; unsayable things thus exist, and sentences whose structures of meaning amount strictly to nonsense can result in philosophical insight.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wittgens-philosophy.html (367 words)

	lacus
		At the beginning of the 20th century philosophers were perhaps only dimly aware of the central importance of language; the Tractatus initiated the 'linguistic turn', seen in the philosophy of language, in linguistic philosophy, and indeed in linguistics.
		In the struggle for survival between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations, the spirit of the Tractatus has survived better.10 Philosophical interest in the Tractatus is not yet exhausted.
		Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, whether or not it prove to give the ultimate truth on the matters with which it deals, certainly deserves, by its breadth and scope and profundity, to be considered an important event in the philosophical world".
	www.percepp.demon.co.uk /lacus.htm (9895 words)

	Island of Freedom - Ludwig Wittgenstein
		This led Wittgenstein to denounce his own theory of language in the Tractatus as nonsense, for to say that language pictures facts is to try to give a picture of the pictorial relation which holds between statement and fact, which is absurd since this pictorial relation shows itself, and what shows itself cannot be said.
		He called his metaphysics important nonsense which helped one to recognize it as nonsense, and thought that philosophers tend to talk nonsense because of the untidy character of ordinary language, and he devoted much attention to the problem of constructing an ideal language which would never tempt anyone to talk nonsense.
		The basis of the new approach is a new view of language; the old view in the Tractatus that there is in principle a perfect language is abandoned and language is seen as a set of social activities, each serving a different kind of purpose.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /WITTGEN.HTM (1028 words)

	Alternative Reading, Writing and Study Rules
		Consequently, there would be an immense number of very low level tractatus floating around the Order of Hermes as any tractatus is desirable to magi who are trying to save vis for a project and have studied past the usefulness of all their Libri Quaestionum and Summae.
		I believe that most tractatus would be of fairly uniform quality for a given spell, as what's being recorded are the author's thoughts and impressions and ideas about the magic of the spell.
		A very high level tractatus would need an accomplished magus to learn or invent the spell to make it useful, whereas a summa of quality 12 would just be a plot bane as long as the player could use it for gain.
	www.durenmar.de /articles/readwriting.html (4472 words)

	The Pangrammaticon: Tractatus Pangrammaticus [1]
		A lot of great observations were made, not least by Jay Thomas, with whom I pursued a number of shiny peripheral issues throughout October on his blog.
		The number in the square brackets does not indicate a sequence of posts but the reference proposition in Wittgenstein's Tractatus, which is available in hypertext here.
		Wittgenstein said that error of the Tractatus was to begin with something as large as the world.
	pangrammaticon.blogspot.com /2005/01/tractatus-pangrammaticus-1.html (556 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: St. Bridget: Revelations to the Popes, 14C
		The title of the original Tractatus was enlarged by the addi-tion of the original chapter heading for rev. II and used as a rubric to IV: 136.
		The revelations of the Tractatus are in the main arranged chro-nologically: Alfonso begins with the revelation to Pope Clement VI that Bridget had received in 1348.
		The Tractatus is closely linked to the Informaciones, the memorandum Alfonso wrote (probably for an inquest in November 1379) to defend the validity of Urban VI's election as pope.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/bridget-tractatus.html (15128 words)

	SparkNotes: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951): Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
		The Tractatus consists of a series of terse propositions numbered in a decimal form from 1 to 7.
		It divides roughly into three parts: propositions 1 to 2.063 deal with the nature of the world; 2.1 to 4.128 deal with the nature of language; and 4.2 to 7 deal with the nature of logic and its implications for mathematics, science, philosophy, and the meaning of life.
		Although they are nonsense, the propositions of the Tractatus point to deeper truths, and once we have recognized these deeper truths we can reject the Tractatus along with all the other nonsense that makes up philosophy.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/wittgenstein/section1.html (1258 words)

	Wittgenstein's Tractatus - the Factastic Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was written during the first world war not long after the publication of Principia Mathematica by Russell and Whitehead.
		A significant part of the material in The Tractatus addresses problems which are now thought by many to have been answered in a definitive way by advances in mathematical logic which have taken place since its publication.
		For example, insofar as the Tractatus addresses the semantics of logical notations it would be natural to suppose his answers superceded by the theories developed in (or as a prelude to) the branch of logic known as model theory.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/philos/history/tintro.htm (319 words)

	Tractatus virtutum Boncompagni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nam hec dictio 'quoniam' melius ponitur in principio cuiuslibet tractatus quam 'quia'.
		Sunt preterea quidam, qui dicunt, quod quando 'quoniam' et 'quia' ponuntur in principio alicuius tractatus, in principio secunde distinctionis debet eis respondere 'idcirco' siue 'ideo', quod mihi uidetur absurdum et prorsus contrarium rationi.
		In the works of Boncompagno, tractatus can either mean a treatise, that is: 1) a whole piece of writing with a distinct beginning and end; or a discussion, that is: 2) an oral discussion, or 3) a section within a written work.
	dobc.unipv.it /scrineum/wight/tv.htm (5653 words)

	Amazon.com : Me and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The book's skeleton is a septet of underwhelming statements: "The world is all that is the case;" "A thought is a proposition with a sense." The intellectual savagery of this book lies in what spins out of these nodes, furious and brilliant.
		In addition to the numbered paragraphs--including paragraph 6.4312, which concerns a little something called "the solution to the riddle of life in space and time"--there are all kinds of diagrams about linguistics and logic.
		According to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, language's only proper use is the description of states of affairs that can be verifiably true or false: those involving solids, liquids, or gases.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/539219/ref=ed_wui_bb_rees (2818 words)

	SIC ET NON - Dick Schmitt: Wittgensteins Tractatus The importance of a clearly arranged representation
		And third, that the Tractatus is thus a demonstration of the limits of the logic of language; this argument was directed at the extension of logical analysis proposed by Bertrand Russell in the years between 1911 and 1914, while Wittgenstein was his graduate student.
		In other words, the Tractatus proceeds just as we did earlier to draw a boundary around that which can be a milk-jug at all, except that, in the Tractatus, we are drawing a boundary around that which can be said and said clearly.
		The first proposition of the Tractatus states that the world is a representation of what is not incorrect: a representation of what is incorrect can always be clarified by replacing the incorrect elements with correct ones.
	www.sicetnon.cogito.de /artikel/wesen/schmitt.htm (6344 words)

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