Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein which deals with the relationship between language and reality and aims to define the limits of science.
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17 Facts About Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Wittgenstein wrote the notes for the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while he was a soldier during World War I and completed it during a military leave in the summer of 1918.
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is written in an austere and succinct literary style, containing almost no arguments as such, but consists of altogether 525 declarative statements, which are hierarchically numbered.
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is recognized by philosophers as a significant philosophical work of the twentieth century and was influential chiefly amongst the logical positivist philosophers of the Vienna Circle, such as Rudolf Carnap and Friedrich Waismann and Bertrand Russell's article "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism".
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein which was published during his lifetime.
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Wittgenstein wrote the notes for the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while he was a soldier during World War I and completed it during a military leave in the summer of 1918.
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is recognized by philosophers as a significant philosophical work of the twentieth century and was influential chiefly amongst the logical positivist philosophers of the Vienna Circle, such as Rudolf Carnap and Friedrich Waismann.
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The No-Truths-At-All View states that Wittgenstein held the propositions of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to be ambiguously both true and nonsensical, at once.
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Indeed, the philosophy of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is for Wittgenstein, on this view, problematic only when applied to itself.
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Prominent view set out in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the picture theory, sometimes called the picture theory of language.
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At the time of its publication in 1921, Wittgenstein concluded that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus had resolved all philosophical problems, leaving one free to focus on what really matters - ethics, faith, music and so on.
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus caught the attention of the philosophers of the Vienna Circle, especially Rudolf Carnap and Moritz Schlick.
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The confusion that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus seeks to dispel is not a confused theory, such that a correct theory would be a proper way to clear the confusion, rather the need of any such theory is confused.
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The method of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is to make the reader aware of the logic of our language as we are already familiar with it, and the effect of thereby dispelling the need for a theoretical account of the logic of our language spreads to all other areas of philosophy.
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus largely broke off formal relations even with these members of the circle after coming to believe Carnap had used some of his ideas without permission.
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the theme of a 1992 film by the Hungarian filmmaker Peter Forgacs.
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Manuscript of an early version of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was discovered in Vienna in 1965 by Georg Henrik von Wright, who named it the Prototractatus and provided a historical introduction to a published facsimile with English translation: Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
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