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Sulla sfida di tradurre il Tractatus [PDF]
L'intervento parte dalla nuova edizione italiana del Tractatus logico-philosophicus per approfondire alcune questioni fondamentali del testo e le scelte traduttive ad esse ...
simona venezia
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El Tractatus de Wittgenstein y la incertidumbre radical [PDF]
In this article, the focus is on the ontology of the Tractatus because despite being one of the themes abandoned after 1930, it has two aspects that should be highlighted in a special way: its relational character, and his affirmation of the contingency ...
Holguín de Torres, Magdalena
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AbstractI present a reconstruction of the logical system of the Tractatus, which differs from classical logic in two ways. It includes an account of Wittgenstein’s “form-series” device, which suffices to express some effectively generated countably infinite disjunctions.
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Symbols in Wittgenstein's Tractatus [PDF]
This paper is concerned with the status of a symbol in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. It is claimed in the first section that a Tractarian symbol, whilst essentially a syntactic entity to be distinguished from the mark or sound that is its sign, bears its ...
Johnston, Colin
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"There is Indeed the Inexpressible". Some Remarks on Ethics and Aesthetics in Wittgenstein’s "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” [PDF]
In this paper, I will analyse proposition 6.522 of the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", which states that “[t]here is indeed the inexpressible” (TLP 6.522). My aim is to show that this proposition is closely related to much of what we read about ethics,
Valeri Elena
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Tractatus 5.4611: 'Signs for logical operations are punctuation marks' [PDF]
I examine the ideas leading up to Wittgenstein's pronouncement at Tractatus 5.4611 that signs for logical operations are punctuation ...
Peter Milne, Milne, Peter
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G.H. von Wright's Biographical Sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein
ABSTRACT The article presents the history of Georg Henrik von Wright's well‐known biographical sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which first appeared in English in 1955 and was later included in Norman Malcolm's Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. It will be shown that von Wright, during the years 1954–1984, published as many as six versions of the ...
Bernt Österman
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ABSTRACT According to most readers of the Tractatus, Wittgenstein's logic is empty or contentless, since it consists of tautologies that do not picture reality. This view, however, does not explain how and why Wittgenstein's ‘logic of depiction’ is transcendental (T, 4.015 and 6.13), especially given that Kant introduced transcendental logic through ...
Simone Nota
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What can be shown, cannot be said: Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy in the Tractatus and the Investigations [PDF]
My thesis is that the say-show distinction is the basis of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy in both the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and the Philosophical Investigations (1953).Wittgenstein said that the Investigations should be ...
Phillips, Dawn Melissa, Phillips, Dawn M
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald
ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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