...-haecceitist to say that there are more possibilities than descriptions, that our descriptions are inevitably general. The Tractatus is explicit about how many possibilities there are: 4.27 For n states of affairs, there are K n = ∑ ν = 0 n n ν...

...P. M. S. Hacker Wittgenstein's Tractatus Luciano Bazzocchi Prototractatus New Wittgensteinians Between 3 and 5 June, 2014, a seminar was held under the auspices of Professor Gabriele Usberti, director of the summer school programme ‘Mind and Language’ at the University of Siena...

...Unlike most books on Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein on Mind and Language begins from the initial articulation of his thoughts in his first drafts, conversations, and lectures, and attends closely to the process of revision that led to the Tractatus...

...The paper examines Wittgenstein's criticisms of Frege's and Russell's views of logical segmentation encapsulated at Tractatus 4.431 and 4.063. These criticisms proceed from Wittgenstein's 1913 conception of atomic sentences as models of reality and the distinctive conception...

... the variety of pre‐Tarskian views. My paper picks up that task and focuses on Wittgenstein's Tractatus. I interweave ideas borrowed from Thomas Ricketts, P. T. Geach, Warren Goldfarb, Peter Hylton, and Juliet Floyd, and thereby try to explain the relation between Wittgenstein's conception...

...I argue that the Tractatus’ central distinction between what can be said and what can only be shown must be treated within the context of what I call a “dialectical” approach to the text. Rather than attempting to determine, in general, whether Wittgenstein holds...

...It is argued that the Tractatus is an analogy of the classical description of physical reality. We know that this had to be replaced by the much more ephemeral quantum theory. It is argued that many of the features of Wittgenstein's later work could have been applied to quantum...

..., I explain how metatheoretical considerations are possible from the point of view of Wittgenstein’s universalist account of logic, and how the so-called paradox of the Tractatus is resolved. A priori apriorism Carnap Rudolf Inference Logocentric predicament Metaperspective...

... at by the substitution of constituents such that the former but not the latter represents certain of its terms as combined. Russell B Wittgenstein L Griffin N Potter M Hylton P Frege G Pears D Pincock C Stevens G Wittgenstein Tractatus Russell judgment combination synthesis Wittgenstein held that Russell’s...

...One of the central problems Wittgenstein faced in the work which led to the Tractatus was the ancient one of explaining the unity of the proposition. Roughly, the problem is this: if a proposition has constituents, then what is it about a proposition that distinguishes it both from...

... Russell B Wittgenstein Tractatus simple objects Is a point in the visual field a simple object? What is the significance of this puzzling question at the outset of Wittgenstein’s 1914 notebook? To appreciate its meaning and weight we must remind ourselves that the start of that notebook on 8 August...

...At Tractatus 4.0031, Wittgenstein writes that ‘Russell's merit is to have shown that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real form.’ What precisely did Wittgenstein take himself to have learned from Russell? The easy answer is that in ‘On Denoting,’ Russell...

...Delineates Wittgenstein's earlier philosophy by relating its central ideas to the philosophies of his predecessors and contemporaries, most notably Russell. Concentrating mainly on Tractatus Logico‐Philosophicus and the Notebooks, Pears sets the stage for his...

...Is concerned with the relation between names and objects in Wittgenstein's earlier thought. Pears deduces from the conclusions of the previous chapter his prominent ‘basic realism’ interpretation of the Tractatus, which is based on the idea that once a name has been attached...

...Gives some of the background to the reception of Schopenhauer's philosophy by both Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, and then examines the influence on each of them of Schopenhauer's conceptions of self and will. In Wittgenstein's early notebooks and Tractatus, the notion...

...The illustration of the Tractatus de herbis is typically thought to contain the earliest depictions of nature through direct observation. This chapter shows that illustrators created new pictures for illustrated versions of Dioscorides in Greek and Arabic prior to the earliest surviving manuscript...

... answers. Both Wittgenstein and Kuhn state that making judgments is easy, but signifying them always comes down to persuasion within and between social practices. The chapter looks at Wittgenstein's earliest work Tractatus—its criticisms and relationship to his later work, particularly...

... religion —Philosophical Investigations Bradley F H Brahms Johannes Duchamp Marcel Eagleton Terry Frege Gottlob irony Joyce James Klimt Gustav logical positivism Picasso Pablo Rodin Auguste Schoenberg Arnold “seeing the world in the right way ” silence Wittgenstein Karl —Tractatus Logico...

...Zumhagen-Yekplé reads Wittgenstein’s Tractatus resolutely, alongside the “Ithaca” chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses, arguing that looking at Wittgenstein in this way offers new dimensions for understanding Wittgenstein’s relationship to modernism that are otherwise unavailable through more...

...This chapter focuses on Glanvill, justiciar of England, and the treatise Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae. Glanvill was counselor and chevalier to one of history's great kings, who, at the court of Henry II, must have headed the royal judges who deliberated...