One section of this work explains that in Parisian courts, cases of traffic accidents are reconstructed by using toy trucks and toy baby carriages to show the spatial relationships of the vehicles, which this work takes as an analogy for how the relationships in a proposition represent the world. It claims that statements w
One section of this work explains that in Parisian courts, cases of traffic accidents are reconstructed by using toy trucks and toy baby carriages to show the spatial relationships of the vehicles, which this work takes as an analogy for how the relationships in a proposition represent the world. It claims that statements which are not built atomistically from empirical facts are meaningless, and thus that mathematics is tautological and metaphysics describes nothing. By its end, this text challenges the usefulness of any language, and advises discarding this book itself as a ladder which has been climbed. Also suggesting to "pass over in silence" that which cannot be spoken of, its propositions were undermined years later by the same author's Philosophical Investigations. For 10 points, identify this text, which was organized in seven sections as a mathematical proof and written by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
One section of this work explains that in Parisian courts, cases of traffic accidents are reconstructed by using toy trucks and toy baby carriages to show the spatial relationships of the vehicles, which this work takes as an analogy for how the relationships in a proposition represent the world.
{Tractatus} Logico-Philosophicus