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  • Essays Illuminating Philosopher's World and Ways
    Newspaper article by Stephen Goode; The Washington Times, October 28, 2001
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...clues as to what the author of the "Tractatus Logico-Philosoophicus" and "Philosophical...understand the famous last sentence of the "Tractatus" where Wittgenstein ends with the proposition...speech. The stage is now set for the "Tractatus" and more particularly for Wittgensteins...
     
  • The Prize Crossword
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 25, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Greater London borough on the Thames (11) 44 Head of the Ismaili sect of Muslims (3,4) DOWN 1 Philosopher who wrote Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus (12) 2 To --- --- is always better than to war-war: Churchill (3-3) 3 Ruth ---, former...
     
  • Brilliant but Miserable; Woman in White: Margaret Wittgenstein as Painted by Klimt. She Hated the Portrait Because It Apparently Did Not Show Her Best Side
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 1, 2008
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense and dominating". Ludwig published one book, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and pursued guiltridden relationships with bright young men. He gave away all his money to his brothers...
     
  • Life Class
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 20, 2009
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    ...Ludwig Wittgenstein, we see this simple solution is not simple at all. His project was to understand language. His book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is written as a series of numbered sentences, its structure redolent of austere, strict logic. He...
     
  • God, 17th-Century Style
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 29, 2006
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1677), the Dutch thinker, 14 years Leibnizs senior and author of two highly (in their time) controversial books, the "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus" and "Ethics," among other works. The two men, as Mr. Stewart points out, are generally regarded...
     

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  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...architect in Vienna (1926 28). The Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, one of his major...who were profoundly influenced by the Tractatus (see logical positivism ). Wittgenstein...seclusion until his death. Philosophy The Tractatus Wittgensteins philosophical thought is...
     
  • Glanvill, Ranulf De
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...Henry II in many offices, finally as chief justiciar after 1180. He commissioned one of the great works of English law, the Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae treatise on the laws and customs of the realm of England, a compilation that...
     
  • Logical Positivism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...who lived for a time near Vienna, and G. E. Moore . The Vienna Circle in general subscribed to Wittgensteins dictum in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus that the object of philosophy was the logical clarification of thought; philosophy was not a theory...
     
  • Sacrobosco, Johannes De
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...study of arithmetic; a treatise on the calendar; and the most popular medieval introductory textbook on astronomy, the Tractatus de sphaera. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of...
     
  • Bradwardine, Thomas
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...theologian. He was chaplain to Edward III (c.1338) and later Archbishop of Canterbury. As a mathematician he is known for his Tractatus de proportionibus velocitatum (1328), which attempted to derive novel quantitative relations between speed and force...
     

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