The Mechanics of Meaning
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The Mechanics of Meaning

Propositional Content and the Logical Space of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

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The Mechanics of Meaning

Propositional Content and the Logical Space of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

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In der 1970 gegrĂŒndeten Reihe erscheinen Arbeiten, die philosophiehistorische Studien mit einem systematischen Ansatz oder systematische Studien mit philosophiehistorischen Rekonstruktionen verbinden. Neben deutschsprachigen werden auch englischsprachige Monographien veröffentlicht.

Bedingung fĂŒr eine Aufnahme in die Reihe ist ein positives Peer-Review-Verfahren. Die Reihe ist offen fĂŒr Open Access Veröffentlichungen.

Aktuelle Herausgeber sind: Michael Quante (WestfĂ€lische Wilhelms-UniversitĂ€t MĂŒnster) und Dominik Perler (Humboldt-UniversitĂ€t zu Berlin).

GrĂŒndungsherausgeber sind: Erhard Scheibe (Herausgeber bis 1991), GĂŒnther Patzig (bis 1999) und Wolfgang Wieland (bis 2003). Von 1990 bis 2007 wurde die Reihe von JĂŒrgen Mittelstraß und von 2005 bis 2020 von Jens Halfwassen mitherausgegeben.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110172188
eBook ISBN
9783110889130

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Notation
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 1.1 Russell’s Theory of Judgment
  5. 1.2 Scientific Epistemology and the Theory of Manifolds
  6. 1.3 Interpreting Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
  7. 2. Helmholtz’s Perceptual Manifold
  8. 2.1 Manifolds and Perception
  9. 2.2 “The Facts in Perception”
  10. 2.3 “The Application of the Axioms to the Physical World“
  11. 2.4 Pre-established Harmony
  12. 3. Russell’s Theory of Judgment
  13. 3.1 The Origins and Purpose of Russell’s Judgment-theory
  14. 3.2 Wittgenstein’s Objections
  15. 3.3 Constraints on Judgment
  16. 4. The Breakdown of Wittgenstein’s Copula-theory
  17. 4.1 The Copula-theory
  18. 4.2 The Δ-copula and the Propositional Form
  19. 4.3 The Early Picture Theory
  20. 4.4 Wittgenstein’s “Correct Theory of Propositions”
  21. 5. Logical Space
  22. 5.1 Truth-functions and the “Core Logical Space”
  23. 5.2 Manifolds and Quantification: 4.04-4.0411
  24. 6. The Picture-theories of Helmholtz, Hertz and Wittgenstein
  25. 6.1 The No-man’s-land
  26. 6.2 Physical Science
  27. 6.3 Models and Manifolds
  28. 7. Conclusion
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index
  31. Concordance of Passages from the Tractatus
  32. Concordance of Entries in the Notebooks: 1914–1916

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