- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Finding a problem
- Chapter 2 First steps
- Chapter 3 Matter
- Chapter 4 Analysis
- Chapter 5 The fundamental thought
- Chapter 6 The symbolic turn
- Chapter 7 Simplicity
- Chapter 8 Unity
- Chapter 9 Fregean propositions
- Chapter 10 Assertion
- Chapter 11 Complex and fact
- Chapter 12 Forms
- Chapter 13 Russell's theory of judgment
- Chapter 14 Meaning
- Chapter 15 Metaphysics
- Chapter 16 Sense
- Chapter 17 Truth-functions
- Chapter 18 Truth-operations
- Chapter 19 Molecular propositions
- Chapter 20 Generality
- Chapter 21 Resolving the paradoxes
- Chapter 22 Typical ambiguity
- Chapter 23 Identity
- Chapter 24 Sign and symbol
- Chapter 25 Wittgenstein's theory of judgment
- Chapter 26 The picture theory
- Chapter 27 Tractarian objects
- Chapter 28 Philosophy
- Chapter 29 Themes
- Appendix A: History of the text
- [UNTITLED]
- Appendix B: The Notes on Logic
- [UNTITLED]
- Citations
- Index
- Bibliography
Forms
Forms
- Chapter:
- (p.109) Chapter 12 Forms
- Source:
- Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic
- Author(s):
Michael Potter (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
At the centre of Wittgenstein's project was the task of explaining the unity of the proposition. In his letter of January 1913 he began to move away from an analysis of propositions as complexes united by a copula —, and adopted the Fregean idea that the unity is to be explained not by a pure copula but by one of the meaning-contributing components of the proposition. However, the way in which he implemented this Fregean idea was still Russellian. As a result, it is hardly a position that could have satisfied him for long. This chapter discusses form as name, form as function, the form of a fact, the unity of the proposition, and the symbolic turn.
Keywords: form, name, function, fact, proposition, symbolic turn, Wittgenstein, Russell, Frege
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Finding a problem
- Chapter 2 First steps
- Chapter 3 Matter
- Chapter 4 Analysis
- Chapter 5 The fundamental thought
- Chapter 6 The symbolic turn
- Chapter 7 Simplicity
- Chapter 8 Unity
- Chapter 9 Fregean propositions
- Chapter 10 Assertion
- Chapter 11 Complex and fact
- Chapter 12 Forms
- Chapter 13 Russell's theory of judgment
- Chapter 14 Meaning
- Chapter 15 Metaphysics
- Chapter 16 Sense
- Chapter 17 Truth-functions
- Chapter 18 Truth-operations
- Chapter 19 Molecular propositions
- Chapter 20 Generality
- Chapter 21 Resolving the paradoxes
- Chapter 22 Typical ambiguity
- Chapter 23 Identity
- Chapter 24 Sign and symbol
- Chapter 25 Wittgenstein's theory of judgment
- Chapter 26 The picture theory
- Chapter 27 Tractarian objects
- Chapter 28 Philosophy
- Chapter 29 Themes
- Appendix A: History of the text
- [UNTITLED]
- Appendix B: The Notes on Logic
- [UNTITLED]
- Citations
- Index
- Bibliography