Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

TRACTATUSLOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS 1133 (We also call the existence of states of affairs a positive fact, and their non-existence a n ...

1134 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN Composition in Yellow, Red, Blue and Black,1921, by Piet Mondrian (1872–1944). The painter/draftsman Mon ...

TRACTATUSLOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS 1135 2.19 Logical pictures can depict the world. 2.2 A picture has logico-pictorial form in common ...

1136 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN A proposition does not actually contain its sense, but does contain the possibility of expressing it. (“ ...

TRACTATUSLOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS 1137 3.1431 The essence of a propositional sign is very clearly seen if we imagine one composed of ...

1138 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN 6.45 To view the world sub specie aeterniis to view it as a whole—a limited whole. Feeling the world as ...

PHILOSOPHICALINVESTIGATIONS 1139 6.54 My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me even ...

1140 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN sample opposite it; then he says the series of cardinal numbers—I assume that he knows them by heart—up ...

PHILOSOPHICALINVESTIGATIONS 1141 thing. But what does this mean? Well, it may mean various things; but one very likely thinks fi ...

1142 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN Now what do the words of this language signify?—What is supposed to shew what they signify, if not the ...

PHILOSOPHICALINVESTIGATIONS 1143 of the sentence. Yet it has a role just like that of a colour-sample in language-game (8); that ...

1144 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN contrast with other sentences because our languagecontains the possibility of those other sentences. Som ...

PHILOSOPHICALINVESTIGATIONS 1145 Of course we have the right to use an assertion sign in contrast with a question- mark, for exa ...

1146 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN If you do not keep the multiplicity of language-games in view you will perhaps be inclined to ask quest ...

PHILOSOPHICALINVESTIGATIONS 1147 of nuts!—He maysuppose this; but perhaps he does not. He might make the opposite mistake; when ...

1148 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN and have progressed to more and more complicated ones. He too might be given the explanation “This is th ...

PHILOSOPHICALINVESTIGATIONS 1149 You sometimes attend to the colour by putting your hand up to keep the outline from view; or by ...

1150 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN But what, for example, is the word “this” the name of in language-game (8) or the word “that” in the os ...

PHILOSOPHICALINVESTIGATIONS 1151 sentence “Excalibur has a sharp blade” would contain a word that had no meaning, and hence the ...

1152 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN elements is itself complex, so the names of the elements become descriptive language by being compounded ...