Logic Post 6 Here are five steps to help you analyze an argument. 1) First find the conclusion, that is, what is the point of what is being claimed. 2...
Logic Post 5 Logical Analysis To properly analyze an argument the argument must be stated clearly and precisely. One must be able to identify the data...
Logic Post 4 Arguments An argument uses one or more statements to support a conclusion. The conclusion is supposed to follow from, or be justified by ...
That's not much of an axiom. If you're saying that X=X and X is not Y, then yes, but you're not saying much. Logic covers a wider spectrum of proposit...
Logic Post 3 Statements, propositions, and sentences Since logic is concerned with assertions that are justified, logic therefore deals with statement...
Well, only that there are different kinds of logic, viz., formal logic, informal logic, symbolic logic, and mathematical logic to name a few. However,...
Logic Post 2 It is important to understand that logic is not concerned with the thinking process. Thinking processes themselves are the subject of psy...
Where do you think our sense of infinity comes from? It comes from us, i.e., finite beings, we create the concepts using finite signs. We extrapolate ...
One could argue, probably successfully, that Wittgenstein was not a finitist, i.e., he never held to the idea that the finite character of language me...
, here is a quote from Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Remarks that might have some bearing on the subject. "We can ask whether numbers are essentia...
I have read some of his Philosophical Remarks, which I believe was written in 1931, it contains the seeds of his later writings on mathematics. I have...
After writing the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Wittgenstein abandoned philosophy for a few years, and in 1920 he became an elementary school teacher...
I tried to sum up the Tractatus into what I thought was important. Obviously there is a lot that I left out, and his use of truth-tables was one of th...
I'll debate anyone who wants to, on the subject of whether there is evidence that consciousness survives death. I'll debate them formally in the debat...
He said the world is made up of facts or states-of-affairs. A true proposition is one that pictures states-of-affairs in the world. All propositions, ...
I don't find his idea of the world a problem, but his ideas of how language connects to the world. Moreover, his idea that there is a limit to languag...
This is what someone would say who never examined the evidence. First, dreams, hallucinations, or delusions don't describe real events as do NDEs. One...
Post 10 (Final post of summary, as incomplete as it is.) To conclude this basic summary of the Tractatus is to conclude that philosophy is not one of ...
No, this isn't about religion. I'm not religious, but I do think there is plenty of testimonial evidence that supports the idea of an afterlife. If yo...
I wrote a thread on this very subject. There is plenty of evidence of an afterlife. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1980/evidence-of-conscio...
Post 9 As we've said the other central idea presented in the Tractatus is the truth-function theory. It goes hand-in-hand with the picture theory. "A ...
In the Notebooks Wittgenstein says the following: "In the proposition a world is as it were put together experimentally (Nb, p. 7)." This idea apparen...
If propositions can only picture facts in the world, then it would seem to make sense that propositions of metaphysics, which go beyond the world of f...
Post 8 In previous posts I talked about names being the simplest component of elementary propositions, and that names referred to objects, and objects...
We haven't even scratched the surface of all that is in the Tractatus, not that I'm going to go into that much depth. Is there anything praiseworthy? ...
In other words, it attempts to go beyond the world of language. Language, in terms of making sense, is language that describes the world. So ya, your ...
Post 7 More on what can and cannot be said according to the Tractatus. You can think of it this way. First, you have the world, and that includes all ...
This is incorrect. Wittgenstein is NOT admitting that it's all wrong. He says at the beginning of the Tractatus, "On the other hand the truth of the t...
Post 6 I want to give credit to K. T. Fann (Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy), because I’m using his book as a guide through this, along with, ...
Nowhere is there evidence that Wittgenstein thought of the Tractatus as a poem, and he sure didn't wish us to think of it as a kind of poem. And, the ...
Post 5 Language “My whole task consists in explaining the nature of the proposition. That is to say, in giving the nature of all facts, whose picture ...
Remember I'm talking mainly about the Tractatus, and it's clear if you read what he said about that book, that he believed he solved all the major pro...
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