How substantial are Tractarian objects really?

Michael Potter

doi:10.5281/zenodo.5651824

Michael Potter Cambridge University, UK

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5651824

Keywords: Wittgenstein, Tractatus, Realism, Idealism, Internalismo, Structuralism, Sense

Abstract

According to the Tractatus objects have an internal nature that is not exhausted by their possibilities of combination to form atomic facts. This internal nature cannot be used to bolster a case for a realist reading of the book, however, because the argument for this internal nature already assumes that the world is represented in thought.

Author Biography

Michael Potter, Cambridge University, UK

Michael Potter is Professor of Logic at Cambridge University and a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. His work on the history of analytic philosophy includes Reason’s Nearest Kin (OUP, 2000), Wittgenstein’s Notes on Logic (OUP, 2010), and The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 (Routledge, 2020). He has also published extensively on the philosophy of mathematics. His book Set Theory and its Philosophy (OUP, 2004) expounds a notably simple version of the set-theoretic foundations of mathematics.

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How substantial are Tractarian objects really?

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