PHIL 309: Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy

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.