Zalabardo, JL;
(2018)
The Tractatus On Unity.
Australasian Philosophical Review
, 2
(3)
pp. 250-271.
10.1080/24740500.2019.1655839.
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Abstract
I argue that some of the central doctrines of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be seen as addressing the twin problems of semantic unity (the unity of the proposition) and metaphysical unity (the unity of facts). Wittgenstein's claim that pictures in general and propositions in particular are facts offers a solution to the problem of semantic unity: objects in the world are represented as combined with one another in the same way in which the constituents of the representing fact are actually combined. Concerning metaphysical unity, Wittgenstein maintains that facts are ultimate units, not the result of combining more basic items.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Tractatus On Unity |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/24740500.2019.1655839 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2019.1655839 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | facts, logical form, Ludwig Wittgenstein, picture theory, predication, propositions, unity |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042123 |
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