This book introduced truth tables as an alternative to the use of constants and axioms. It includes thestory of a Paris court that used toy cars as an analogy for its picture theory of the proposition. Its sixthsection calls the propositions of logic, mathematics, and philosophy "pseudo-propositions," and claims thisbook itself only serves as a ladder which must be thrown to the side once it's been climbed. Theintroduction to this book was written by the author's teacher
This book introduced truth tables as an alternative to the use of constants and axioms. It includes thestory of a Paris court that used toy cars as an analogy for its picture theory of the proposition. Its sixthsection calls the propositions of logic, mathematics, and philosophy "pseudo-propositions," and claims thisbook itself only serves as a ladder which must be thrown to the side once it's been climbed. Theintroduction to this book was written by the author's teacher, Bertrand Russell. In the C.K. Ogdentranslation, this book ends "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" and begins "The worldis all that is the case." For 10 points, name this book by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
This book introduced truth tables as an alternative to the use of constants and axioms.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [or Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlun]