One section of this work claims that ethics is mystical and transcendental and distinguishes between "showing" and "speaking about" things.
One section of this work claims that ethics is mystical and transcendental and distinguishes between "showing" and "speaking about" things. The fourth section of this book argues that philosophy is not a natural science since it is a method of inquiry, not a doctrine. This work describes logic as the "scaffolding" of the world and uses the example of a toy car to illustrate how (*) propositions are representational depictions of the world. This book introduced the "picture theory" of language, and its final proposition states "that of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence". For 10 points, name this work that was later refuted in its author's Philosophical Investigations, the first book of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
One section of this work claims that ethics is mystical and transcendental and distinguishes between "showing" and "speaking about" things.
{Tractatus Logico}-{Philosophicus} [or {Logisch}-{Philosophische Abhandlung;} accept {Wittgenstein's Tractatus} before he's mentioned; prompt on "Tractatus"]