An exposition of the picture theory of language, this work borrows Schopenhauer's ladder analogy in the sixth of its seven propositions.
The introduction to this work discusses a proof by Sheffer to explain the context of the symbol p-bar comma xi-bar comma N-bar or xi-bar. That symbol is used to describe a process by which general propositions can be built up from atomic propositions and is the general form of the truth function, the idea of which is introduced by way of truth tables in the fourth section. An exposition of the picture theory of language, this work borrows Schopenhauer's ladder analogy in the sixth of its seven propositions. Beginning by defining the world as all that is the case, this book ends with the claim that one must pass over in silence what one cannot speak of. For ten points, name this best- known work of philosophy by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The introduction to this work discusses a proof by Sheffer to explain the context of the symbol p-bar comma xi-bar comma N-bar or xi-bar.
{Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus} (or {Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung})