LARKIN:
Spring 2003
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DATE: 2-25-03
I.
Objectives
A.
Understand
truth-functionality
B.
Get
a sense of the Main Argument of Tractatus
II.
Discussion:
Survey
III.
Lecture:
A.
Truth
Functions and Truth Tables
1.
Sample
Truth Table Analysis
2.
Tautologies
and Contradictions
B.
The
Main Argument of the Tractatus
1.
What
can be said (Propositions 1-4)
2.
Can
be said clearly (Propositions 5-6)
3.
What
cannot be said must be passed over in silence.
(Proposition 7)
IV.
Next
Time
A.
Topic:
Logical Atomism
B.
Reading: Wittgenstein, Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus
C.
Reading Questions: No reading
questions for Wittgenstein—that would just be cruel.