Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus may be the most important book of philosophy written during the twentieth century.
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English Year 2009
Table of contents :
Language --
Towards a working through of 'meaning as use' --
Presumption versus assumption --
Distinguishing 'meaningful consequences' from 'grammatical effects' --
Towards a dynamic, applied conception of meaning --
What does 'signify' signify? --
Literature --
'Wittgensteinian' poetry --
Wallace Stevens as 'Wittgensteinian' --
The many meanings of 'seeing' : a literary 'reminder' --
Invitations to nonsense : poetry considered as a therapeutic tool --
Wittgenstein as Stevensian? --
'Modernist' performative literature : philosophy, poetry, prose --
'Wittgensteinian' prose --
The 'strong grammar' of Faulkner's The sound and the fury --
Delusions of 'sense' in the 'representation' of derangement : the dangers of interpretation --'Creative mimicry' and the untranslatable metaphor --Wittgenstein and the 'sound of sense' --
Time --
Dummett challenged : beyond 'realist' and 'anti-realist' renderings of time --
Introduction --
Using nonsense to combat nonsense : different conceptions --
How to discuss matters with a realist --
Realism versus anti-realism? --
An intermediate conclusion --
Methodological reflections --
A better picture of time ( -statements) --
On still wanting to ask, "what is time?" --
Conclusions : what is it to apply Wittgenstein to time? : or : what is a grammatical investigation? --
(Dis)solving the 'time-slice' conception of time --
Introduction --
How not to represent space-time --
Are we limited beings? --
Continuity --
Real time-slice talk --
Metaphysicians' time-slice talk --
Dummett on time-slices --
Against time-slice talk? --
In closing.
