Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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book philosophical work

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early 20th-century philosophical work that attempts to define the relationship between language, thought, and reality through a highly structured, logical framework.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → philosophical work →
author	Ludwig Wittgenstein →
canonicalStatus	classic of 20th-century philosophy →
centralThesis	propositions are logical pictures of facts → the limits of my language mean the limits of my world → the world is the totality of facts, not of things → whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent →
completionYear	1918 →
concernedWith	limits of language → logical form → relationship between language and reality →
countryOfFirstPublication	Germany →
firstBookEditionPublisher	Routledge & Kegan Paul →
firstEditionPublisher	Wilhelm Ostwalds Annalen der Naturphilosophie →
firstEnglishTranslationYear	1922 →
firstEnglishTranslators	C. K. Ogden → F. P. Ramsey →
genre	analytic philosophy → logic →
hasCommentaryBy	Bertrand Russell →
hasSevenMainPropositions	true →
influenced	20th-century analytic philosophy → Vienna Circle → logical positivism →
influencedBy	Arthur Schopenhauer → Bertrand Russell → Gottlob Frege →
laterReception	criticized and revised by Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations →
mainTopic	epistemology → logic → logical atomism → metaphysics → philosophy of language → picture theory of language →
notableProposition	7 →
notablePropositionText	Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. →
originalLanguage	German →
originalTitle	Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung →
period	early Wittgenstein →
philosophicalMovement	analytic philosophy →
philosophicalPosition	logical atomism → picture theory of meaning →
philosophicalStanceOnEthics	ethical statements are nonsensical in a strict logical sense →
philosophicalStanceOnMetaphysics	traditional metaphysical statements are nonsensical →
prefaceBy	Ludwig Wittgenstein →
publicationYear	1921 →
structure	numbered propositions →
writtenDuring	World War I →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Culture and Value → On Certainty → Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics → The Blue and Brown Books → linguistic turn →	relatedWork
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world → logical positivism ("The Logical Structure of the World") →	associatedWork
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent ("Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (German edition 1921)") → Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent ("Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (English edition 1922)") →	firstPublishedIn
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world →	appearsIn
logical atomism →	associatedWith
picture theory of language →	associatedWithWork
Philosophical Investigations →	criticizes
logical positivism →	influencedByWork
The Blue and Brown Books →	marksTransitionFrom
Ludwig Wittgenstein →	notableWork
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ("Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung") →	originalTitle
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent →	partOfWork
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world ("Tractatus proposition 5.6") →	positionInWork