4/2/2023 0 Comments Optimism philosophy![]() Nevertheless, the positivist interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus tries to affirm through its arguments that all kind of metaphysic is nonsense, not only the traditional one. As a matter of fact, there is here a clear possibility for a regenerated metaphysics, represented by logic, which shows the essential structure of world. However necessity can be shown silently through a correct approach of logic statements. ![]() Trying to say something meaningful and necessary is wrong according to this account. To say and to show are essentially different to Wittgenstein ( TLP 4.022). Different from Frege’s and Russell’s realism that assumes logic as a theory of logical and real objects, Wittgenstein thinks that logic does not states a thing about any kind of logical domain, but instead of this logic shows through language and symbols the essence of world. Logic is the great linguistic mirror of world, it shows the world scaffolding. Logic plays a relevant role in the tractatian philosophical structure because it is the sound way to grasp the claimed metaphysical harmony between world and language. It is from this philosophical standpoint that there seems to be an identity (of form) between linguistic expressions, the thoughts expressed and the states of affair described.” (p.96) Internal properties of symbols represent internal relations among what is symbolized. As Baker says (1988) “The fundamental thought of the Tractatus is that the essential nature of symbolism must exactly match the essential nature of what is symbolized. In order to convey meaning our sentences shows that the world and language has a unique net of possible articulation between their constituents ( der logische Raum). In Wittgenstein’s point of view in Tractatus, this fact is a demand to the fully significance of our most trivial daily sentences and also to the most sophisticated scientific statements. ![]() all meaningful linguistic structures, has to match the “syntax” of world. The possible articulation of names in proposition has to be necessarily suitable to the possible articulation of objects in facts. Consequently, an essential harmony or isomorphism between world and language is assumed as the ground that supports the pictorial theory of propositional meaning. The name and the named object must have the same logical form. Every proposition is a logical picture from a fact, because the names in an all-analyzed proposition are symbols to the objects which compound the represented fact. As a result, all other possible use of language should be analyzed in terms of descriptive use done by descriptive sentences. Wittgenstein argues that the essence of language is descriptive. Wittgenstein’s task in Tractatus is to show this pictorial essence that makes the traditional philosophy nonsense. The essence of our language excludes meaningful necessary statements. The traditional metaphysical philosophers demand from our language what it cannot give. In this way, the formulation of the philosophical problems lays on the misunderstandings in the use of our language. ![]() One of the famous claims in Tractatus is that no sentence that is meaninful is necessary, because only propositions that can also be false are meaningful. Wittgenstein aims to show that the traditional philosophy articulates nonsensically what the symbolism or logic of our language does not allow: necessity and sense. As a result of this approach to language, the totality of philosophy as a domain of metaphysical thesis are taken by Wittgenstein as nonsense, because it intends to describe necessarily and meaningfully the essence of things and facts in the world. As Wittgenstein (1979 1) states just in the beginning of his preface: “this book intends to determine the limits of what can be expressed by our thoughts”. by an analysis of our capacity for representation using statements or sentences (Sätze) which describes states of affaires ( Sachverhalte). This is done by a logical investigation of the propositional symbolism i.e. The philosophy exposed systematically in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-philosophicus is an attempt to determine the semantic limits of every possible language. ![]()
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