Wittgenstein's seven-proposition treatise argues that language pictures the world, and that whatever cannot be so pictured — ethics, metaphysics, the mystical — must be passed over in silence. Written in the trenches of the First World War, it reshaped logic and analytic philosophy in barely eighty pages.
Sources for Ludwig Wittgenstein — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in Logic
Held in the Logic chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Aristotle — Categories (Organon) (c. 350 BCE)
- Immanuel Kant — Logic (Jäsche edition) (1800)
- George Boole — The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847)
- Augustus De Morgan — Formal Logic (1847)
- Bertrand Russell — Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)
- Alan Turing — On Computable Numbers (1936)
- Lewis Carroll — The Game of Logic (1886)
- John Venn — Symbolic Logic (1881)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Dissertatio de Arte Combinatoria (1666)
- Giuseppe Peano — Arithmetices Principia (1889)
- William Stanley Jevons — The Principles of Science (1874)