Representation And Reality In Wittgensteins Tractatus

Author : José L. Zalabardo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198743947
Total Pages : 273 pages
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Download or read book Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by José L. Zalabardo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He shows the origins of Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation in Russell's theories of judgment, arguing that the picture theory is Wittgenstein's solution to some of the problems that he found in Russell's position. Zalabardo defends the view that, for Wittgenstein, facts in general, and the facts that play the role of propositions in particular, are not composite items, arising from the combination of their constituents. They are ultimate, irreducible units, and what we think of as their constituents are features that facts have in common with one another. These common features have built into them their possibilities of combination with other features into possible situations. This is the source of the Tractarian account of non-actual possibilities. It is also the source of the idea that it is not possible to produce propositions answering to certain descriptions, including those that would give rise to Russell's paradox. Zalabardo then considers Wittgenstein's view that every proposition is a truth function of elementary propositions. He argues that this view is motivated by Wittgenstein's epistemology of logic, according to which we should be able to see logical relations by inspecting the structures of propositions. Finally, Zalabardo considers the problems that we face if we try to extend the application of the picture theory from elementary propositions to truth functions of these.

Author : José L. Zalabardo
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ISBN 13 : 9780191803949
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Download or read book Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by José L. Zalabardo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jose L. Zalabardo presents a new account of central ideas in Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' on the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He explores Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation, the unity of facts and propositions, and the nature of everyday propositions.

Author : José L. Zalabardo
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191061492
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by José L. Zalabardo and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He shows the origins of Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation in Russell's theories of judgment, arguing that the picture theory is Wittgenstein's solution to some of the problems that he found in Russell's position. Zalabardo defends the view that, for Wittgenstein, facts in general, and the facts that play the role of propositions in particular, are not composite items, arising from the combination of their constituents. They are ultimate, irreducible units, and what we think of as their constituents are features that facts have in common with one another. These common features have built into them their possibilities of combination with other features into possible situations. This is the source of the Tractarian account of non-actual possibilities. It is also the source of the idea that it is not possible to produce propositions answering to certain descriptions, including those that would give rise to Russell's paradox. Zalabardo then considers Wittgenstein's view that every proposition is a truth function of elementary propositions. He argues that this view is motivated by Wittgenstein's epistemology of logic, according to which we should be able to see logical relations by inspecting the structures of propositions. Finally, Zalabardo considers the problems that we face if we try to extend the application of the picture theory from elementary propositions to truth functions of these.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Pattern Books
ISBN 13 : 3208205406
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by Pattern Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was first published in German in 1921, then translated and published into English in 1922 by C. K. Ogden, with help from F. P. Ramsey, and supervised by Wittgenstein. Tractatus revolves around seven basic propositions and begins to branch off from these propositions to illustrate the relations between words and objects. From this, Wittgenstein applies his connections into the philosophy of language and symbolism to show how the problems of philosophy arise from misuses of language. To Wittgenstein, "Philosophy is not a theory, but an activity." As it is an activity, philosophy must undergo the process of dissolving misuses of logic. Proclaiming philosophy is a matter of logic instead of metaphysics, too, ethics and aesthetics become inexpressible in the form of the spoken propositional logic. From this grounding of philosophy needing to undergo a subversive process of logic, Wittgenstein traverses many subjects from physics and death, the mystical and metaphysical, to the pictorial to imaginary. Even as the only book he published in his lifetime, it stands as one of the most important texts of the 20th century.

Author : Dan Nesher
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761824541
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Truth and the Representation of Reality written by Dan Nesher and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2002 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In On Truth and the Representation of Reality, Dan Nesher develops a new theory of truth in the framework of pragmatist theory of representation. Using the pragmatist theory of perception for the basis of his epistemological explanation of our confrontation with external Reality and how it's represented, Nesher shows that in our perceptual operations we quasi-prove the truth of our perceptual judgments. He explains how- through our proving the truth of our propositions and theories, we know that they correspond to Reality, and through our proving their falsity, we know that they don't correspond to it.

Author : Marie McGinn
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0199244448
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elucidating the Tractatus written by Marie McGinn and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie McGinn provides a clear, comprehensive, and original interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and of its relation to Wittgenstein's later work. The Tractatus is one of the most famous works of early analytic philosophy, the interpretation of which has always been a matter for controversy and is currently the focus for an important philosophical debate.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a dynamic new translation of Wittgenstein' s most famous work -- one of the most influential philosophy works of the Twentieth Century. Kolak' s translation is the first to read like an original work written in English and is the first to restore the poetical and lyrical qualities of the original Tractatus as intended by the author.

Author : Matthew B. Ostrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521006491
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by Matthew B. Ostrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a strikingly innovative study of the Tractatus.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
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Download or read book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (The original 1922 edition with an introduction by Bertram Russell) written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (The original 1922 edition with an introduction by Bertram Russell)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work published by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. It was an ambitious project: to identify the relationship between language and reality and to define the limits of science. It is recognized as a significant philosophical work of the twentieth century. Wittgenstein wrote the notes for Tractatus while he was a soldier during World War I and completed it when a prisoner of war at Como and later Cassino in August 1918. It was first published in German in 1921 as Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung. Tractatus was influential chiefly amongst the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle, such as Rudolf Carnap and Friedrich Waismann. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He published few works in his lifetime, including one book review, one article, a children's dictionary, and the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921).

Author : Alfred Nordmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521850865
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by Alfred Nordmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction, first published in 2005, considers the philosophical and literary aspects of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' and shows how they are related.