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An introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Print Book, English, [1963, ©1959, reprinted 1965]
2d ed., rev View all formats and editions
Harper & Row, New York, [1963, ©1959, reprinted 1965]
177 pages 21 cm
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Foreword by Professor H.J. Paton
Introduction
Glossary
Elementary propositions
The theory of descriptions
Negation: (1) The logicians' definition of "not p"
Negation: (2) The picture theory
Consequences of the picture theory
Sign and symbol
Wittgenstein, Frege, and Ramsey
Operations
Formal concepts and formal series
"The general form of proposition"
Generality
Knowledge and certainty
"Mysticism" and solipsism
First Harper Torchbook edition published 1965