1st Edition

Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Edited By Irving M. Copi, Robert W. Beard Copyright 1966
    430 Pages
    by Routledge

    432 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume I of eight of a series on Wittgenstein. Originally published in 1966, this is a collection of essays that review and comment on the form, language, Picture Theory in Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’.

    INTRODUCTION; REVIEW OF 'TRACTATUS'; REVIEW OF 'TRACTATUS'; SOME REMARKS ON LOGICAL FORM; LOGICAL CONSTRUCTIONS (I); AN EPISTLE; ARE THERE ULTIMATE SIMPLES? STRUCTURE IN SENTENCE AND IN FACT; SOME PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH LANGUAGE; THE PICTURE THEORY OF MEANING; 'TRACTATUS' 3.1432; PICTURES AND FORM IN WITTGENSTEIN'S 'TRACTATUS'; ON WITIGENSTEIN'S 'SOLIPSISM'; 'TRACTATUS' 5.542; OBJECTS, PROPERTIES, AND RELATIONS IN THE 'TRACTATUS'; MR COPlON OBJECTS, PROPERTIES, AND RELATIONS IN THE 'TRACTATUS'; 'TRACTATUS' 6.3751; SCIENTIFIC LAWS AND SCIENTIFIC OBJECTS IN THE 'TRACTATUS'’ PROFESSOR STENIUS ON THE 'TRACTATUS'; WITIGENSTEIN'S THREE LANGUAGES; NAMING AND SAYING; WITTGENSTEIN'S PICTURE-THEORY OF LANGUAGE; WITIGENSTEIN'S NOTION OF AN OBJECT; ON THE PICTURE THEORY OF LANGUAGE: EXCERPTS FROM A REVIEW WITTGENSTEIN'S PICTURE-THEORY; THE 'TRACTATUS': NOMINALISTIC OR REALISTIC? THE GLORY AND THE MISERY OF LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN; WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE MYSTICAL; WITTGENSTEIN'S PICTURE THEORY OF LANGUAGE

    Biography

    Irving M. Copi, University of Michigan; Robert W. Beard Florida State University