In the Tractatus, language shows the logical form of the world, and the world is the totality of facts. But where exactly is this world? It is said th...
The Tractatus and facts "The cat is on the mat" is true IFF (the cat is on the mat), where "the cat is on the mat" exists in language, and (the cat is...
Yes, there is no dispute that what is important in language are facts and true propositions, but the dispute arises in deciding what is a fact and wha...
There is nothing wrong in making an assertion and not justifying it by a mechanism, which, after all, is the basis of scientific modelling. From Brita...
No, because that was not the purpose the Tractatus. The Tractatus was addressing a specific problem, not trying to explain every aspect of language. T...
This leads into the question as to how a model of the truth, the metaphorical truth, the simile as an expression of truth and the literal truth relate...
@"013zen" @"Wayfarer" 1) Voltage is not pressure; we are using one mode of thinking to facilitate another. 2) I've been mauling over recently if this ...
As I see it: As Kant successfully combined in his Critique of Pure Reason two prior theories previously thought independent of each other (Empiricism ...
According to the SEP article on Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century", and according to the IEP...
@"Apustimelogist" There is only one World Yes, there is only one World. Humans are part of this World. From an Enactivist perspective, humans have evo...
In the world we see an object on the left and we see an object on the right, and we say in the world there are two objects. From this we conclude that...
Humans have a general commonality, in that all the self-reproducing cellular organisms on the Earth so far examined have DNA as the genome (https: //o...
How does commonality between humans work because of their shared DNA? For the same reason that there is more commonality between humans who share 99.9...
That humans share 99.9% of their DNA (essential for development, survival and reproduction) with other humans may explain the commonality of human exp...
Perhaps the same could be said about space. In a similar way to Presentism, it could be said that only the space that I exist in is real, and any spac...
According to Merriam Webster, "like" means the same or nearly the same, whilst "simulate" means to give the same or nearly the same appearance often w...
From the viewpoint of fish in an aquarium, is their existence a simulated life, in that the aquarium simulates the ocean, or is it a real life, in tha...
HG Wells in his book The Time Machine wrote “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” T...
As Pablo Picasso said: "good artists copy; great artists steal”, which also references the difference between art and craft. As Claude Lorrain painted...
It depends on what you mean by "infinity". If "infinity" means continually adding one to an existing set, then the idea of infinity can be properly ex...
I look and see a fact in the world such as "the apple is on the table". As no-one else can see into my mind, in that telepathy is not a thing. I can o...
There are two distinct worlds. There is our ordinary world with concepts proper and objects like books, tables and mountains. There is the Tractarian ...
I agree that explaining how the mind can learn the meaning of the world "ngoe" from just five pictures is beyond my pay grade. All I know is that it w...
Tractarian objects are pseudo-concepts Why is a Tractarian object a pseudo-concept? Things can be said about concepts proper, such as book and tables,...
If we were only picturing facts to ourselves, then we are using a Private Language, which Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations said was not po...
In the model is a red piece of wood, and in the world is a red car. From the Picture Theory, the red piece of wood in the model pictures the red car i...
As I see it, some words we learn by description and some by acquaintance. As regards learning by description, we can go to the dictionary and discover...
There are two kinds of objects, concepts proper and pseudo-concepts. There are concepts proper in our ordinary world, such as "furniture", and there a...
For Wittgenstein, thought was language and language was thought. I may disagree, but that seems to be his position. As he said, the limits of my langu...
Kant knows "1 + 1 = 2" prior to observing the world. For Wittgenstein's Picture Theory, elementary propositions mirror states of affairs in the world ...
In the Tractatus, there seem to be formal concepts and pseudo-concepts. Pseudo-concepts are the objects which are necessary for the substance of the w...
The Tractatus mentions three kinds of concepts: formal concept, concept proper and pseudo-concept. Formal concepts The logic that ties elementary prop...
It has been said that Wittgenstein never studied philosophy as such, although he may have learnt from certain other philosophers he was in direct cont...
As the elementary proposition "1 + 1 = 2" asserts the existence of a state of affairs, the logical structure of the elementary proposition "1 + 1 = 2"...
As I understand it, a proposition cannot express a formal concept, ie the logical structure of the proposition, but it can only be shown by the propos...
From Bertrand Russell's Introduction: 3.1431 The essence of a propositional sign is very clearly seen if we imagine one composed of spatial objects (s...
4.1272 "The same applies to the words "complex", "fact", "function", "number", etc - They all signify formal concepts............."1 is a number", "Th...
@"Fooloso4" I now no longer believe that the x in F (x) is a formal concept, but in fact represents a concept proper. Consider the proposition "grass ...
An object in logical space must be a logical object, meaning that its necessary properties must be logical. For example, if an apple was a logical obj...
The expression "logical objects" may be read in two ways. It can be referring to either 1) objects that are logical or 2) logic can be an object. As r...
Some think that relations don't exist outside the human mind, in which case there cannot be complex objects outside the mind. From Wikipedia – Relatio...
Trying to make sense of the Tractatus from the useful conversation between @"schopenhauer1" and @"013zen": If I see a shadow I picture a shadow, and h...
Perhaps Wittgenstein didn't think of himself as a philosopher, and was working out his ideas more for himself than others. A kind of conversational re...
Wittgenstein uses an apodictic style On the one hand, considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, and on the other hand, th...
I'm sure you probably already know, but the edit facility is quite useful. At the bottom of one's own post - left clock on three dots - left click on ...
Perhaps the following is relevant. It may not be the case that Wittgenstein was trying to break away from the tradition of epistemology and metaphysic...
4.24 - "Names are the simple symbols: I indicate them by single letters (x, y, z). I write elementary proposition as function of names, so that they h...
I wrote "Unfortunately, this line of enquiry cannot be developed within the Tractatus, as the Tractatus doesn't engage with ether Idealism or Realism....
5.634 and 5.641 could refer to either Idealism or Realism. In 5.64, Wittgenstein says that solipsism coincides with pure realism. However, the term "p...
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