Wittgenstein's notes on logic / Michael Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Michael D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Notes on logic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Michael Potter shows, for the first time, that Wittgenstein's early 'Notes on Logic' are a work of philosophical and historical importance. Using a blend of biography and philosophy, he draws new conclusions about the nature of the notes, the genesis of the Tractatus, and Wittgenstein's working methods.

Contents:

""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Finding a problem""; ""1.1 Early life""; ""1.2 Manchester""; ""1.3 The Principles of Mathematics""; ""1.4 Logicism""; ""1.5 Russell�s paradox""; ""2 First steps""; ""2.1 Cambridge""; ""2.2 On denoting""; ""2.3 Sense-data""; ""3 Matter""; ""3.1 The project""; ""3.2 On matter""; ""3.3 Dawes Hicks""; ""3.4 The relation of sense-data to physics""; ""3.5 The atomistic assumption""; ""4 Analysis""; ""4.1 Inference or construction?""; ""4.2 Wittgenstein�s conception""; ""4.3 Practicalities""; ""5 The fundamental thought""; ""5.1 Why logic?""

""5.2 Logical constants as incomplete symbols""""5.3 There are no logical constants""; ""5.4 There are no real variables""; ""5.5 Logic as a special science""; ""5.6 Logic as contentless""; ""5.7 The fundamental thought""; ""6 The symbolic turn""; ""6.1 Propositions""; ""6.2 The rejection of psychologism""; ""6.3 The reliability of language""; ""6.4 Conflicting conceptions""; ""7 Simplicity""; ""7.1 Realism""; ""7.2 Solipsism""; ""7.3 Idealism""; ""7.4 Reconciliation""; ""8 Unity""; ""8.1 The copula""; ""8.2 There cannot be different types of things""

""8.3 The theory of types is superfluous""""9 Fregean propositions""; ""9.1 Frege�s notion of assertion""; ""9.2 Propositions are not names of truth-values""; ""9.3 Whose influence?""; ""9.4 Propositions as articulate""; ""10 Assertion""; ""10.1 The judgment stroke as force indicator""; ""10.2 Asserted and unasserted propositions""; ""10.3 Assertion as psychological""; ""10.4 Psychology""; ""11 Complex and fact""; ""11.1 A world of facts, not of things""; ""11.2 Influences""; ""11.3 Russell on facts""; ""12 Forms""; ""12.1 Form as name""; ""12.2 Form as function""

""12.3 The form of a fact""""12.4 The unity of the proposition""; ""12.5 The symbolic turn again""; ""13 Russell�s theory of judgment""; ""13.1 The original multiple relation theory""; ""13.2 A problem for the original theory""; ""13.3 Russell�s revised theory""; ""13.4 Wittgenstein�s further objection""; ""13.5 Acquaintance""; ""13.6 Another formulation""; ""13.7 The fate of the multiple relation theory""; ""13.8 Other accounts""; ""14 Meaning""; ""14.1 Russell�s lectures on logical atomism""; ""14.2 Propositions are not names of their meanings""; ""14.3 Meanings as facts""

""14.4 The demise of propositional meaning""""15 Metaphysics""; ""15.1 Disjunctive facts""; ""15.2 Negative facts""; ""15.3 Summing facts""; ""15.4 General facts""; ""15.5 Logical data""; ""16 Sense""; ""16.1 Semantic value""; ""16.2 The semantic value of a form""; ""16.3 The compass-needle analogy""; ""16.4 Grain""; ""17 Truth-functions""; ""17.1 Using primitive signs""; ""17.2 Truth-tables""; ""17.3 Truth-diagrams""; ""17.4 Comparison""; ""18 Truth-operations""; ""18.1 The problem""; ""18.2 The solution""; ""18.3 Duality""; ""19 Molecular propositions""; ""19.1 Terminology""

""19.2 Which fact?""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-310) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-959635-2

1-282-07611-6

9786612076114

0-19-155068-X

OCLC:

320909187