Philosophical Grammar - Softcover

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520245024 ISBN 13: 9780520245020

Publisher: University of California Press, 2005

Synopsis

In 1933 Ludwig Wittgenstein revised a manuscript he had compiled from his 1930-1932 notebooks, but the work as a whole was not published until 1969, as Philosophische Grammatik. This first English translation clearly reveals the central place Philosophical Grammar occupies in Wittgenstein's thought and provides a link from his earlier philosophy to his later views.

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Review:

"There is much in this book that is both important and more clearly stated than elsewhere in his 'later philosophy.'"--"Georgia Review

From the Back Cover:

Wittgenstein wrote the Philosophical Grammar during the years 1931 to 1934 - the period just before he began to dictate the Blue Book. Although it is close to the Investigations in some points, and to the Phiosophische Bemerkungen at others, the Philosophical Grammar is an independent work which covers new ground. It is Wittgenstein's fullest treatment of logic and mathematics in their connection with his later understanding of 'proposition', 'sign', and 'system'. He also discusses inference and generality - critisizing views of Frege and Russell as well as earlier views of his own - and the treatment of mathematical proof in this book, especially of inductive or recursive proofs, is deeper and more extensive than previously.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0520245024
• ISBN 13: 9780520245020
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 498