Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language

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• Elucidating the Tractatus i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgements xiii
• List of Abbreviations xiv
• 1: The Single Great Problem 1
• 2: Wittgenstein's Critique of Frege and Russell 1: Propositions with Sense 28
• 3: Wittgenstein's Critique of Frege and Russell 2: the Propositions of Logic 53
• 4: Pictures 75
• 5: Propositions 98
• 6: The Opening of the Tractatus 134
• 7: Variables and Formal Concepts 162
• 8: Molecular Propositions 192
• 9: Inference and Operations 210
• 10: Logic and the General Form of a Proposition 230

• Elucidating the Tractatus i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgements xiii
• List of Abbreviations xiv
• 1: The Single Great Problem 1
• 2: Wittgenstein's Critique of Frege and Russell 1: Propositions with Sense 28
• 3: Wittgenstein's Critique of Frege and Russell 2: the Propositions of Logic 53
• 4: Pictures 75
• 5: Propositions 98
• 6: The Opening of the Tractatus 134
• 7: Variables and Formal Concepts 162
• 8: Molecular Propositions 192
• 9: Inference and Operations 210
• 10: Logic and the General Form of a Proposition 230
• 11: Logic and Solipsism 255
• 12: Turning the Examination Round 278
• Bibliography 304
• Index 311