How is it that false statements, such as “horses have eight legs”, can be just as meaningful as true statements, such as “horses have four legs”? Where does logical structure come from? We can ...
How is it that false statements, such as “horses have eight legs”, can be just as meaningful as true statements, such as “horses have four legs”? Where does logical structure come from? We can ...
No person could reasonably claim to have the answer to the meaning of life. An even more daring claim is to know what meaning is at all. What is the meaning of these very words? Of language as a whole ...
Ray Monk, Juliet Floyd, Dawn Wilson and Monica Nadler-Wittgenstein join Shahidha Bari for a conversation organised with the Austrian Cultural Forum London for the Tractatus at 100 Show more Called a ...
The paper presents a formal explication of the early Wittgenstein's views on ontology, the syntax and semantics of an ideal logical language, and the propositional attitudes. It will be shown that ...
The "Wittgenstein Monument" in Skjolden, Norway, erected near the philosopher's hut in 2018 by artists Sebastian Kjølaas, Marianne Bredesen, and Siri Hjorth. (via “§4.003 Most questions and ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein is a notoriously difficult philosopher to read, let alone understand. Help is here in the form of one of the volumes in W.W. Norton’s new “How to Read” series. They are short books ...
Born into a wealthy Viennese family, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was the glamour boy of English philosophy in the 20 th century, and in the new millennium his influence continues to ...
Ray Monk, Juliet Floyd, Dawn Wilson and Monica Nadler-Wittgenstein join Shahidha Bari for a conversation organised with the Austrian Cultural Forum London for the Tractatus at 100 Show more 'What we ...