Tractatus Logico Philosophicus: A Sublime Book - Hardcover
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus: A Sublime Book - Hardcover
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by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Author)
A concise and rigorous examination of language, logic, and the limits of meaningful discourse.
In the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein sets out a tightly ordered sequence of propositions intended to clarify how language relates to reality. He argues that meaningful statements "picture" facts in the world, and that philosophical confusion arises when language attempts to speak beyond what can be logically expressed. The work moves systematically from an analysis of the structure of facts to an exploration of logic, representation, and the boundary between sense and nonsense.
Though compact in form, the Tractatus became one of the central texts of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Its influence shaped logical positivism and subsequent debates in philosophy of language and epistemology. The famous concluding proposition-"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"-captures the work's disciplined insistence on the limits of expression. Presented here in its complete and unabridged form, the text remains essential reading in modern philosophy.
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