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Wittgenstein's notes on logic / Michael Potter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Potter, Michael D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Notes on logic.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
- Logic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 310 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- 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:
- Finding a problem
- First steps
- Matter
- Analysis
- The fundamental thought
- The symbolic turn
- Simplicity
- Unity
- Fregean propositions
- Assertion
- Complex and fact
- Forms
- Russell's theory of judgment
- Meaning
- Metaphysics
- Sense
- Truth-functions
- Truth-operations
- Molecular propositions
- Generality
- Resolving the paradoxes
- Typical ambiguity
- Identity
- Sign and symbol
- Wittgenstein's theory of judgment
- The picture theory
- Tractarian objects
- Philosophy
- Themes
- History of the text
- The notes on logic.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-310) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-959635-2
- 1-282-07611-6
- 9786612076114
- 0-19-155068-X
- OCLC:
- 320909187
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