- 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
Unity
Unity
- Chapter:
- (p.78) Chapter 8 Unity
- Source:
- Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic
- Author(s):
Michael Potter (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Merely taking the symbolic turn — to conceive of a proposition as symbolizing what it expresses, rather than being identical with it — is not yet to go very far towards uncovering the structure of propositions. In his letters to Russell during 1912, Wittgenstein was still operating with a Russellian conception of that structure. A proposition he still thought of as a sort of complex. This chapter discusses Wittgenstein's rejection of the idea that propositions consist of names related by a copula, citing that there cannot be two different types of things and that the theory of types is superfluous.
Keywords: Wittgenstein, Russell, copula, theory of types
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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