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Wittgenstein's Theory Of Sense That Is Shown In The Early Time

Posted on:2008-12-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J K SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215453084Subject:Foreign philosophy
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The theory of sense is very important in the philosophy. It is the most important one in the philosophy of language. In Wittgenstein's philosophy, he analyzes the language and the world in logical way, and makes the world matches with the language. The language that is used to depict the world is a picture of the world. The sense of language is shown in the process of that the language depicts the world.Wittgenstein analyzes the world in logical way and he analyzes the world in the background of the logical space. Logical space is a logical concept that is based on the logical world. Logical space contains many imaginable worlds and the true world is the realistic one. Logical space is made up of the states of affairs. Every state of affair has its position in the logical space and its position means the state of affair exists or not. The state of affair is made up of the basic states of affairs. The basic state of affairs is the basic of the world and the logical space. The basic states of affairs don't depend on each other. We can't know one basic state of affairs from another. The basic state of affairs is made up of objects. The object is the simplest thing in the world. It doesn't have any configuration and it exists forever. It appears in the basic state of affairs only. The objects live together. We can know all objects if we know one. Object is the end of the analysis of the world in logical way; it is a result of the logical analysis. The object can prove the proposition has certain and complete sense. Using the object, we can form the basic states of affairs, the states of affairs and logical space in logical way. In this way, Wittgenstein succeeds to analyzing the world in logical way.After analyzing the world, Wittgenstein begins to talk about how to cognition the world. When we face the world, we used to describing the world in many ways. These ways that are used to describe the world are the pictures of the world. A picture is a fact. A picture must have the same pictorial form to the world that is depicted by the picture. When we use the picture depicts the world, only the picture's endpoints actually touch the objects that are the world's endpoints. Other things base on the endpoints'actually touching.Among these ways that we used to describe the world, the language is the most important one. Its usual form of expression obscures the logical form of our normal language. We have to analyze the logical language which has the same logical form to the normal language. In order to analyzing the language, we must analyze the proposition, because the language is made up of propositions. Prepositional sign is a fact. The propositions are made up of the elementary propositions. The elementary propositions are the basic of the language; they live together and don't depend on each other. We can't know one elementary proposition from another. The elementary proposition is made up of names; names are the simplest things of language. The names only occur in the elementary propositions. Names are the logical endpoints of the language. If we the language is made up of names, we have already analyzed the language completely. The names can prove the proposition has certain and complete sense. Using the names, we can form elementary propositions, we can write elementary propositions as functions of names, they have the form of"φx". Propositions are the truth—functions of elementary propositions, they have the form of"[ p|- ,ξ|-,N(ξ|_)]". It is the general form of the truth—functions of elementary propositions, it shows how to form a proposition from an elementary generally. Using the form of"φx"and"[ p|_,ξ|_,N(ξ|_)]", we can form the elementary propositions from names and we can form propositions from the elementary propositions. We can form language in logical ways. Wittgenstein succeeds to analyzing the language in logical ways.Basing on the same logical form, the language and the world are formed from the names and objects. The language that is used to depict the world is the picture of the world. The name means the object; the elementary proposition depicts the basic state of affairs; the proposition depicts the state of affair; the language depicts the world. It is proved by the names and the elementary propositions'actually touching. It proves the language depicts the world certainly.We can know the sense of propositions in the process that the language depicts the world. A proposition that has certain sense must depict the state of affair and is formed in logical way. We can know the range of language through the propositions that has certain sense. The range of language is also the range of what can be spoken about. What we can't speak about we must pass over in silence. We can show what we can't speak about. The sense can't be spoken about. We must show it. It is shown in the process in which the language depicts the world.Wittgenstein forms the world and the world in logical ways. He makes the world corresponding to the language completely. The language that is used to depict the world is the picture of the world. The sense of the language is shown in the process in which the language depicts the world. The sense of language can not be spoken about, Wittgenstein uses a mew way—show it—to express it. This new way is a completely new ways for Wittgenstein; he creates a new philosophical ways and provides a new philosophical view for others. His theoretic about the sense of language is very simple which is based on the logical way. It influences many logical language philosophers, such as Canapéetc.
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