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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

  • Ana Quirozhas quoted5 years ago
    The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language.
  • Ana Quirozhas quoted5 years ago
    What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent
  • Ana Quirozhas quoted5 years ago
    The book will, therefore, draw a limit to thinking, or rather—not to thinking, but to the expression of thoughts; for, in order to draw a limit to thinking we should have to be able to think both sides of this limit (we should therefore have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
  • Ana Quirozhas quoted5 years ago
    The limit can, therefore, only be drawn in language and what lies on the other side of the limit will be simply nonsense
  • b8940845922has quoted7 years ago
    Thus, logic has two problems to deal with in regard to Symbolism: (1) the conditions for sense rather than nonsense in combinations of symbols; (2) the conditions for uniqueness of meaning or reference in symbols or combinations of symbols.
  • b8940845922has quoted7 years ago
    Fourthly, there is the question: what relation must one fact (such as a sentence) have to another in order to be capable of being a symbol for that other? This last is a logical question, and is the one with which Mr Wittgenstein is concerned.
  • b8940845922has quoted7 years ago
    Thirdly, there is the problem of using sentences so as to convey truth rather than falsehood; this belongs to the special sciences dealing with the subject-matter of the sentences in question.
  • b8940845922has quoted7 years ago
    Secondly, there is the problem as to what is the relation subsisting between thoughts, words, or sentences, and that which they refer to or mean; this problem belongs to epistemology.
  • b8940845922has quoted7 years ago
    First, there is the problem what actually occurs in our minds when we use language with the intention of meaning something by it; this problem belongs to psychology.
  • Karinahas quoted9 years ago
    Thus, logic has two problems to deal with in regard to Symbolism: (1) the conditions for sense rather than nonsense in combinations of symbols; (2) the conditions for uniqueness of meaning or reference in symbols or combinations of symbols.
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