Mysticism and Nonsense in the Tractatus
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Upon reading Wittgenstein’s Preface to his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one could easily be forgiven for thinking that the book is in a similar line of business to any other work of analytical philosophy. True enough, Wittgenstein’s professed aim of drawing a limit to the expression of thoughts is exceptionally ambitious; and one could not fail to be struck by the immodesty of the claim that the problems of philosophy—that is, all of them—’have in essentials been finally solved’ (TLP: p. 29). But be this as it may, the Preface seems to welcome the reader onto familiar methodological territory, for it would seem to be the case that:
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