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- Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Wittgenstein’s Impatient Reply to Russell
- Chapter 2 Modality in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
- Chapter 3 Clarification and Analysis in the Tractatus
- Chapter 4 The Fish Tale: The Unity of Language and the World in Light of TLP 4.014
- Chapter 5 That Which ‘Is True’ Must Already Contain the Verb: Wittgenstein’s Rejection of Frege’s Separation of Judgment from Content
- Chapter 6 Solipsism and the Self
- Chapter 7 The Tractatus and the First Person
- Chapter 8 Arithmetic in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Chapter 9 ‘Normal Connections’ and the Law of Causality
- Chapter 10 The Ethical Dimension of the Tractatus
- Chapter 11 “Obviously Wrong”: The Tractatus on Will and World
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Chapter 3 - Clarification and Analysis in the Tractatus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2024
- Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Wittgenstein’s Impatient Reply to Russell
- Chapter 2 Modality in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
- Chapter 3 Clarification and Analysis in the Tractatus
- Chapter 4 The Fish Tale: The Unity of Language and the World in Light of TLP 4.014
- Chapter 5 That Which ‘Is True’ Must Already Contain the Verb: Wittgenstein’s Rejection of Frege’s Separation of Judgment from Content
- Chapter 6 Solipsism and the Self
- Chapter 7 The Tractatus and the First Person
- Chapter 8 Arithmetic in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Chapter 9 ‘Normal Connections’ and the Law of Causality
- Chapter 10 The Ethical Dimension of the Tractatus
- Chapter 11 “Obviously Wrong”: The Tractatus on Will and World
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Summary
Some readers of the Tractatus claim that, for Wittgenstein, the correct philosophical method is “a method of logical analysis in terms of a symbolic logical notation, whereby the logical, syntactical or formal properties of logically unclear expressions are clarified by translating them into a logically perspicuous notation” (Kuusela 2019, p. 85). This chapter aims at refuting this view, maintaining that Wittgenstein distinguishes between logical analysis and philosophical clarification. More precisely, I would like to establish that, drawing on certain features of Russellian logical practice (as illustrated for instance in On Denoting), Wittgenstein makes a distinction between logically ordered language and completely analyzed language. For him, philosophical clarification does not consist in an analysis of ordinary language but in the visible manifestation (at the level of signs) of the logical ordering of its symbols.
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- Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusA Critical Guide, pp. 50 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024