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Expression: phrase, word, formula, or part of a formula. Below the level of sentences, therefore not true or false._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on Expressions - Dictionary of Arguments
II 52 Expression/Wittgenstein: the projection rules are expressed by projecting. - The intention is expressed by intending. >Intentions, >Rules, II 55 One cannot express what cannot be different at all. - So we will never reach the most fundamental. - This is the limit of language. - Essence: therefore one cannot say about the world what is essential to it, since this could not be negated. >Negation, >Essence. II 64 Sentence/express/Wittgenstein: the sentence is not expressed in the sense in which e.g. weeping is an expression of pain. >Pain. --- IV 24 Definition term/terminology/Tractatus: 3.31 each part of the sentence, which characterizes its sense, I call an expression (a symbol) - expression is all for the sense of the sentence essential, what sentences can have in common with each other. >Symbols, >Words, >Sentences._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
W II L. Wittgenstein Wittgenstein’s Lectures 1930-32, from the notes of John King and Desmond Lee, Oxford 1980 German Edition: Vorlesungen 1930-35 Frankfurt 1989 W III L. Wittgenstein The Blue and Brown Books (BB), Oxford 1958 German Edition: Das Blaue Buch - Eine Philosophische Betrachtung Frankfurt 1984 W IV L. Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), 1922, C.K. Ogden (trans.), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der Naturphilosophische, XIV (3/4), 1921. German Edition: Tractatus logico-philosophicus Frankfurt/M 1960 |