Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1921 work examines how propositions picture facts through shared logical form, distinguishes what can be said from what can only be shown, and traces the limits of meaningful language.

7 sections ยท 24 lessons

Course outline

Reality's Structure

  1. Facts, Not Things
  2. Simple Objects
  3. States of Affairs
  4. Logical Space

Picture Theory

  1. Pictures as Models
  2. Logical Form
  3. Thoughts as Pictures
  4. Sense and Truth

Propositions

  1. Names and Objects
  2. Elementary Propositions
  3. Truth-Functions
  4. Truth Tables

Nature of Logic

  1. Tautologies
  2. Contradictions
  3. Logic as Transcendental
  4. General Form

Limits of Language

  1. Saying vs. Showing
  2. Boundaries of Sense
  3. Science and Philosophy

The Mystical

  1. Ethics and Value
  2. The Mystical Feeling
  3. The Subject

Ladder and Silence

  1. The Ladder
  2. Silence

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