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In Wittgenstein's Tractatus, language is
{ 1 } - composed primarily of sounds, secondarily of written inscriptions.
{ 2 } - a social phenomenon -- like a game.
{ 3 } - meaningless unless it's empirically testable or analytic.
{ 4 } - the totality of propositions.
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In Wittgenstein's Tractatus, language is
{ 1 } - composed primarily of sounds, secondarily of written inscriptions.
{ 2 } - a social phenomenon -- like a game.
{ 3 } - meaningless unless it's empirically testable or analytic.
{ 4 } - the totality of propositions.
He doesn't mention such things.
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In Wittgenstein's Tractatus, language is
{ 1 } - composed primarily of sounds, secondarily of written inscriptions.
{ 2 } - a social phenomenon -- like a game.
{ 3 } - meaningless unless it's empirically testable or analytic.
{ 4 } - the totality of propositions.
This is what he said later, in the Philosophical Investigations.
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In Wittgenstein's Tractatus, language is
{ 1 } - composed primarily of sounds, secondarily of written inscriptions.
{ 2 } - a social phenomenon -- like a game.
{ 3 } - meaningless unless it's empirically testable or analytic.
{ 4 } - the totality of propositions.
This is logical positivism.
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In Wittgenstein's Tractatus, language is
{ 1 } - composed primarily of sounds, secondarily of written inscriptions.
{ 2 } - a social phenomenon -- like a game.
{ 3 } - meaningless unless it's empirically testable or analytic.
{ 4 } - the totality of propositions.
These propositions picture (or model) reality. Propositions are true if they correspond to reality, and false if they do not.
Wittgenstein adds that natural science is the totality of true propositions.
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