Book
1921
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world is everything that is the case, language pictures facts by sharing their logical form, and whatever cannot be pictured this way — ethics, aesthetics, the meaning of life — must be passed over in silence.
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- BegriffsschriftGottlob Frege, 1879Introduces a formal notation for quantifiers and bound variables that can express generality and relations beyond what propositional logic can capture, founding modern predicate logic.
- On DenotingBertrand Russell, 1905A definite description like 'the present King of France' does not refer to anything, and a sentence using it is not meaningless but simply false, once its underlying logical form is properly analysed — the founding move of analytic philosophy of language.
Filed under Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Philosophy in Philosophy.