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The Tractatus on Logical Consequence
Author(s) -
Zalabardo José L.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00353.x
Subject(s) - epistemology , philosophy , simple (philosophy) , logical consequence
: I discuss the account of logical consequence advanced in Wittgenstein's Tractatus . I argue that the role that elementary propositions are meant to play in this account can be used to explain two remarkable features that Wittgenstein ascribes to them: that they are logically independent from one another and that their components refer to simple objects. I end with a proposal as to how to understand Wittgenstein's claim that all propositions can be analysed as truth functions of elementary propositions.