- 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
Molecular propositions
Molecular propositions
- Chapter:
- (p.170) Chapter 19 Molecular propositions
- Source:
- Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic
- Author(s):
Michael Potter (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Wittgenstein believes that it is not the complex that does the symbolizing in a proposition, but rather a particular fact about the complex, namely that fact about it which ensures that the proposition expresses the sense that it does. It is this fact — the symbolizing fact — that we see in the complex when we read it as expressing the proposition. The question therefore becomes urgent of trying to say what this symbolizing fact is. This chapter shows that it is not the identity of the sentences that is in question; what we want to do now is to identify what the fact is that we see exemplified in this complex when we read it as expressing a proposition.
Keywords: Wittgenstein, proposition, symbolizing fact, poles
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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