Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Original Title: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Genres: Non-fiction, Philosophy
Publisher: Madness Serial Publishing
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Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life.
Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers.
Beginning with the principles of symbolism and the necessary relations between words and objects, the author applies his theories to various branches of traditional philosophy, illustrating how mistakes arise from inappropriate use of symbolism and misuses of language.
After examining the logical structure of propositions and the nature of logical inference, he discusses the theory of knowledge as well as principles of physics and ethics and aspects of the mystical.
For Wittgenstein, logic was something we use to conquer a reality which is in itself both elusive and unobtainable. He famously summarised the book in the following words: 'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.'
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