Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Title:	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Author:	Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Excerpt
Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it—or at least similar thoughts. So it is not a textbook. Its purpose would be achieved if it gave pleasure to one person who read and understood it. The book deals with the problems of philosophy, and shows, I believe, that the reason why these problems are posed is that the logic of our language is misunderstood. The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.

Table of Contents
· 1 The world is all that is the case. · 2 What is the case—a fact—is the existence of states of affairs. · 3 A logical picture of facts is a thought. · 4 A thought is a proposition with a sense. · 5 A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions. · 6 The general form of a truth-function is [p, E, N(E)]. This is the general form of a proposition. · 7 What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence