1st Edition

Logic and Language in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

By Ian Proops Copyright 2001
    148 Pages
    by Routledge

    146 Pages
    by Routledge

    This historical study investigates Ludwig Wittgenstein's early philosophy of logic and language, as it is presented in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The study makes a case for the Tractatus as an insightful critique of the philosophies of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege-the Founding Fathers of analytic philosophy.

    Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Logic -- II. Logical Assertion and the Nature of the Proposition -- 111. The Proposition as a Picture of Reality -- IV. Deductive Inference and its Justification -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

    Biography

    Ian Proops is at the University of Michigan

    "There are many useful discussions here. Proop's account of logical constants as "operations" (10-17), his investigation of the Russellian origins of Wittgenstein's talk of the "verb" of a proposition" (33-37), and his classification of problems labeled "justification of deduction" (77-80) are especially valuable. The Philosophical Review Vol. 111, April 2002."