191 definitions
The book's index
Notebooks 1914–1916
134 concepts · 191 definitions
- analysis1
- analytic proposition1
- art2
- atomic proposition2
- axiom of reducibility1
- beauty1
- belief1
- belief in god1
- causality1
- classical mechanics2
- code word1
- colour exclusion1
- complex1
- conscience1
- content1
- contentment1
- contingency1
- contradiction1
- deduction1
- definition1
- dependence1
- desirelessness1
- divinity1
- double negation1
- eternity2
- ethics1
- eudaimonia1
- excluded middle1
- existence2
- experience1
- expression1
- fate1
- fear of death1
- fearlessness1
- fog1
- gap1
- general form of proposition1
- generality1
- God2
- grammar1
- happiness2
- heat1
- hieroglyph1
- history1
- human body1
- identity2
- ineffable1
- infinite divisibility1
- insight2
- judgment1
- knot1
- language2
- law of nature1
- life2
- logic6
- logical constant1
- logical form1
- logical proposition2
- logical type1
- meaning1
- minimum visibile1
- miracle1
- molecular proposition1
- music1
- musical theme1
Logic (n.) is interested only in reality, and in sentences only so far as they are pictures of reality.
Logic (n.) must turn out to be a totally different kind of thing from any other science.
Logic (n.) concerns only whether a proposition is capable of truth, the first requirement for its being true.
Logic (n.) is prior to all truth and falsehood: a proposition can make sense only if the world already has its logical structure.
Philosophy (n.) has no deductions; it is purely descriptive, gives no pictures of reality and can neither confirm nor refute science.
Philosophy (n.) should fly to the whole problem: avoid partial problems and seek a free view over the single great problem, even if unclear.
Philosophy (n.) has one great problem, mirrored in negation, disjunction and truth as in many great and small mirrors.
Philosophy (n.) had, for the young Wittgenstein, one task: explaining the nature of the proposition, and so the nature of all being.
A Tautology (n.) cannot be called true, being made so as to be true; it pictures nothing and is what all clashing pictures share.
A Tautology (n.) is not nonsense like a sentence with meaningless words; its meaningful parts are linked so they paralyse one another.
A Tautology (n.) still portrays, but so loosely tied to reality that reality has unlimited freedom; contradiction leaves it none.
Tautology (n.) and contradiction both say nothing, yet are not zero points on one scale but opposite poles.
A Name (n.) pins the general description of the world, a stencil, to the world so that the world is wholly covered.
A Name (n.) compresses its whole complex reference into one.
A Name (n.) is no thing in our language; we know only that names differ in type from relations.
A Name (n.) may stand for very various forms; only its syntactical application signals which form is presented.
Simple object (n.) were spoken of constantly though not a single one could be mentioned, which was the difficulty.
Simple object (n.) prompt a question that keeps seeming to make sense, though it must be nonsense: are there any?
A Simple object (n.) might be a point in the visual field, the kind of question once taken as the real philosophical one.
A Simple object (n.) is, for us, the simplest our analysis can reach, perhaps appearing only as a prototype, a variable.
Negation (n.) is a deep mystery: things are not so, and yet we can say how they are not.
Negation (n.) is possible for every proposition, which shows that true and false mean the same for all, against Russell.
Negation (n.) applied to a proposition that says a great deal oddly says nothing at all, which is astonishing.
Negation (n.) not only bounds the negated domain from the rest but points to it.
A Picture (n.) cannot be negated; one can deny that it is right, not deny the picture, which marks it off from a proposition.
A Picture (n.) must in its turn cast its shadow on the world.
A Picture (n.) can show what should not happen, as fencing puppets could show how not to fence.
A Picture (n.) can present relations that do not exist, which is the puzzle of how false representation is possible.
Truth (n.) or falsity is no accidental property of a meaningful proposition; to have sense just is to be true or false.
Truth (n.) as a problem is identical with the question how a correlation of relations, of signifying and signified situations, is possible.
Truth (n.) and falsity refer to a proposition's relation to the world, yet oddly can be used inside a proposition for representing.
Truth (n.) was always said to be a relation between proposition and situation, but Wittgenstein could never pick out such a relation.
A Proposition (n.) is a standard to which facts behave, as one arrow points the same or opposite way as another; names are otherwise.
A Proposition (n.) is a measure of the world.
A Proposition (n.) says this is how it is and not that, presenting a possibility that stands out from a whole.