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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

A work by Ludwig Wittgenstein, first published in 1921

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  • What korrents draws from it

    What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak one must be silent, The truth of the thoughts in this book seems unassailable and definitive, so its problems have in essentials been finally solved, The world is everything that is the case …

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Key facts

First published
19212
Edition korrents quotes
tr. C. K. Ogden, 19223
Claims on korrents
191

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak one must be silent (opens korrents.com)1

  2. The truth of the thoughts in this book seems unassailable and definitive, so its problems have in essentials been finally solved (opens korrents.com)1

  3. The world is everything that is the case (opens korrents.com)1

  4. The world is the totality of facts, not of things (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Most philosophical propositions and questions are not false but senseless, arising from not understanding the logic of our language (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity whose object is the logical clarification of thoughts (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sources

  1. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (tr. C. K. Ogden, 1922) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Q655717 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (tr. C. K. Ogden, 1922) (en.wikisource.org) (opens en.wikisource.org)

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