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A review by mveldeivendran1
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
5.0
This is the only text which got published during his lifetime. The text comprises of 7 propositions extending over 90 pages with logical comments and subcomments for propositions. Structure gives more of a feeling of reading Math dissertation work rather a philosophical one.
The seminal theme which I think is the inquiry of how traditional philosophy and traditional solutions arise out of ignorance of the principal uses of symbolism and out of misuse and misunderstanding of the language. Thus he comes with the conditions on which a logically perfect language could function. There's some sort of underlying structure for thought and for its communication via language (a proposition least for the ideal perfect ones in theory)
Thought and the nature of the world in itself share a structure confined within the laws of logic and geometry (spatially and temporally) he proposes.
4.002 Man possesses the capacity of constructing languages, in which every sense can be expressed, without having an idea how and what each word means - just as one speaks without knowing how the single sounds are produced.
More references and citations from Kantian frameworks (like priori, intuitions and concepts) are also taken into account and incorporated. We have thoughts and sometimes we have the urge to convey the manifested feelings and experiences to the other person. There the limitation starts Ludwig says that the idea and form one has about a particular thing may not exactly the same with prepositions held by the other. Pardon me, I don't have the skillset to put it the way he did for he used first 40 pages to acquaint with numerous glossaries such as atomic facts, structure, constituents, propositions, forms, signs, names, object and so it goes.
He holds logic and natural science for the rescue to get a plausible solution nevertheless he conveys (rather very late in the book) that they have their limitations too. This book is taken for a Positivist's approach which is quite baffling personally.
6.371 The whole modern conception of the world is founded on the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena.
This Tractatus is the weirdest work of Philosophy I've ever read. They say this is the most misunderstood text in the Western philosophical world of 20th century. From biographical background, I came to know that Wittgenstein was so satisfied with having written this to the extent he felt that there's no more philosophical conundrums left to analyze and solve regarding the language and our forms of expression.
All being said, clearly this book is not for a moment of one sitting kind of bulk reading. More we read more it might makes sense. Sense in the sense of finding validation of being true or false to the experiences and thoughts. Every proposition of our everyday understanding of 'making sense' and 'non-sense' are all confined with the logical possibilities, he says. So I guess that makes sense.
5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
I certainly have this conundrum for a long while that distorted use and abuse of language is deeply uprooted with the social / cultural conditioning. Maybe it's not possible for everyone of us to understand the limits of using the language in the same way. Yet I may have to explore more on this topic of expression, perception of thought and the world. Journey continues yet again.
7 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
The seminal theme which I think is the inquiry of how traditional philosophy and traditional solutions arise out of ignorance of the principal uses of symbolism and out of misuse and misunderstanding of the language. Thus he comes with the conditions on which a logically perfect language could function. There's some sort of underlying structure for thought and for its communication via language (a proposition least for the ideal perfect ones in theory)
Thought and the nature of the world in itself share a structure confined within the laws of logic and geometry (spatially and temporally) he proposes.
4.002 Man possesses the capacity of constructing languages, in which every sense can be expressed, without having an idea how and what each word means - just as one speaks without knowing how the single sounds are produced.
More references and citations from Kantian frameworks (like priori, intuitions and concepts) are also taken into account and incorporated. We have thoughts and sometimes we have the urge to convey the manifested feelings and experiences to the other person. There the limitation starts Ludwig says that the idea and form one has about a particular thing may not exactly the same with prepositions held by the other. Pardon me, I don't have the skillset to put it the way he did for he used first 40 pages to acquaint with numerous glossaries such as atomic facts, structure, constituents, propositions, forms, signs, names, object and so it goes.
He holds logic and natural science for the rescue to get a plausible solution nevertheless he conveys (rather very late in the book) that they have their limitations too. This book is taken for a Positivist's approach which is quite baffling personally.
6.371 The whole modern conception of the world is founded on the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena.
This Tractatus is the weirdest work of Philosophy I've ever read. They say this is the most misunderstood text in the Western philosophical world of 20th century. From biographical background, I came to know that Wittgenstein was so satisfied with having written this to the extent he felt that there's no more philosophical conundrums left to analyze and solve regarding the language and our forms of expression.
All being said, clearly this book is not for a moment of one sitting kind of bulk reading. More we read more it might makes sense. Sense in the sense of finding validation of being true or false to the experiences and thoughts. Every proposition of our everyday understanding of 'making sense' and 'non-sense' are all confined with the logical possibilities, he says. So I guess that makes sense.
5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
I certainly have this conundrum for a long while that distorted use and abuse of language is deeply uprooted with the social / cultural conditioning. Maybe it's not possible for everyone of us to understand the limits of using the language in the same way. Yet I may have to explore more on this topic of expression, perception of thought and the world. Journey continues yet again.
7 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.