221 definitions
The book's index
Philosophical Remarks
153 concepts · 221 definitions
- accident1
- apocalypse1
- application2
- arithmetic4
- atomic proposition1
- attention1
- axiom1
- axiom of infinity1
- beginning1
- behaviorism1
- belief2
- box1
- calculus2
- causality1
- chess1
- church modes1
- circle1
- color1
- color blindness1
- colour exclusion1
- colour octahedron1
- colour space1
- command1
- computation1
- consistency1
- consistency proof1
- context principle1
- contradiction1
- counterexample1
- decimal system1
- definition1
- delusion1
- desire1
- digit1
- doubt1
- endlessness1
- epistemology1
- equation1
- essence1
- evidence1
- excluded middle1
- expectation5
- explanation1
- first step1
- first-person pronoun1
- flux1
- foresight1
- form1
- fulfillment1
- game1
- generality1
- generalization1
- the given1
- grammar3
- heap1
- hidden contradiction1
- hypothesis3
- ideal language1
- identity1
- idle wheel1
- ignorance1
- illusion1
- image1
- immediate experience1
- immortality1
- induction2
- infinite1
- infinite divisibility1
- infinity3
- insight2
- instinct1
- instruction1
- intention1
- internal relation1
- irrational number3
- knowledge1
- ladder1
- language6
- law3
- lever1
- mathematical proposition5
- mathematics2
- measurement1
- memory2
- mental image2
- metamathematics1
- metaphor1
- model2
- nonsense1
- number4
- ordinary language1
- ostensive definition1
- ownership1
Language (n.) cannot be used to get outside language, nor taught by language as piano playing can be.
Language (n.) cannot set the limits of the world in relief; it can only refer to this world.
Language (n.) includes any fact whose obtaining is presupposed by a proposition's making sense.
Language (n.) has limits like a sphere projected on a page: the margin corresponds to no possible extension of the sphere.
A Mathematical proposition (n.) says what its proof proves and never more.
A Mathematical proposition (n.) is a pointer to an insight; without one it would be utter nonsense.
A Mathematical proposition (n.) can be imagined as a creature that itself knows whether it is true or false.
A Mathematical proposition (n.) is the visible surface of a body of proof, the boundary facing us.
Expectation (n.) is described internally by what is expected, not externally like hunger by the food that would satisfy it.
Expectation (n.) prepares a yardstick for the event, as guessing someone's height presumes a tape measure, not a scale.
Expectation (n.) and occurrence are like the hollow shape of a body and its solid shape.
Expectation (n.) is known as expectation at once, never confused with memory or idle image, showing it is directly connected with reality.
Time (n.) has infinity in its nature, not in its extension; no day can be the last though no infinite interval is imaginable.
Time (n.) is infinite not as a duration: 'each hour is followed by a next' is a rule of the grammar of time.
Time (n.) appears to us essentially an infinite possibility, obviously infinite from what we know of its structure.
Time (n.) pictured passing as a remorseless film strip is a misapplied picture; as the possibility of change, time does not flow.
Number (n.) cannot be run through one by one as a totality, not for lack of human power but because that means nothing.
A Number (n.) is a picture of the extension of a concept.
A Number (n.) is irreducibly individual: its properties cannot be foreseen, only seen when one gets there.
The Number (n.) are a form given in reality through things, as rationals through extensions and complex numbers through manifolds.
Philosophy (n.) as custodian of grammar grasps the essence of the world not in propositions but in rules excluding nonsense.
Philosophy (n.) looks for which propositions make sense for a structure, not which are true.
Philosophy (n.) is difficult not over exotic fish but in applying simple principles any child knows amid the confusion our language creates.
Philosophy (n.) is complex not in its matter but in our tangled understanding.
Arithmetic (n.) does not talk about numbers, it works with them, and is its own application.
Arithmetic (n.) is the grammar of numbers; kinds of number differ only by the arithmetical rules for them.
Arithmetic (n.) is like a knife made without deciding what it will cut; its application will show soon enough.
Arithmetic (n.) is a kind of geometry, calculations on paper as geometry has constructions, and chess might be too.
Pi (n.) known all at once by God would have suited the schoolmen as a question, and the question is senseless.
Pi (n.) has no last digit: imagine a man who had written one a day forever, and the infinite totality reduces to absurdity.
Pi (n.) is not a decimal fraction but a law by which decimal fractions are formed.
A Question (n.) has as its meaning the method of answering it: tell me how you search and I will tell you what you seek.
A Question (n.) is understood by considering what an answer to it would look like.
A Question (n.) always has a corresponding method of finding; it denotes a method of searching.
Grammar (n.) gives language the degrees of freedom it needs.
Grammar (n.) plays tricks on us, as always in the sphere of the infinite.
Grammar (n.) is a theory of logical types.