Logic and Language in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Ian Proops

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135716455
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Arts & Humanities

This historical study investigates Ludwig Wittgenstein's early philosophy of logic and language, as it is presented in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The study makes a case for the Tractatus as an insightful critique of the philosophies of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege-the Founding Fathers of analytic philosophy.

Index

ab-functions, 31n

ancestral. See relation, ancestral of

Annahme. See assumption

Anscombe, Elizabeth, 40, 49–50, 51n, 69

arrow metaphor, 9n, 20

assertion, 31

act of, 32, 39

logical, 32–33, 56–57

psychological, 33, 56–57

sign of, xx, 29–30, 35–39, 47–53, 56

and truth, 33 See also Frege, Gottlob, and Russell, Bertrand

assumption [Annahme], 43–45, 49–56,

Russell on, 50

Austin, J. L., 77, 78n

axiom systems, 24n, 91

Baker, Gordon, xvi n, 30n, 81n

base, of operation, 16

Bedeutung, 39n, 44n

bipolarity of the proposition. See proposition, bipolarity of

Black, Max, 49n

Boolos, George, 94

Bradley, F. H., 97–100

Brockhaus, Richard, xvi n, xvii n

Carroll, Lewis, 78, 82, 83

Carruthers, Peter, 30n

Cartwright, Helen, 9n

Cartwright, Richard, 9n, 34n

chain, links of, 68, 69n

Chomsky, Noam, 74n, 75

Church, Alonzo, 15

circumstances, 32, 52, 55. See also states of affairs

communication, 62

complex, 54n

and fact, 68–70

as hybrid of fact and thing, 69

propositional, 63

compositionality, and picture-theory, 62, 67

concatenation of names, 68–9

concept

denoting, 35–37

propositional, 34n

constitu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• I. Logic
• II. Logical Assertion and the Nature of the Proposition
• III. The Proposition as a Picture of Reality
• IV. Deductive Inference and its Justification
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index