Question 1

About the part of the Tractatus that Wittgenstein did not write, he said that

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A)  it is composed of nonsense. 
B)  it is the more important part. 
C)  it deals with that part of natural science that remains to be discovered. 
D)  he would write that part in a subsequent volume. 
A)  it is composed of nonsense. 
B)  it is the more important part. 
C)  it deals with that part of natural science that remains to be discovered. 
D)  he would write that part in a subsequent volume.

Question 2

Why couldn't the "important" part of the Tractatus be written?

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Question 3

Why do tautologies and contradictions "say nothing"? What do they do?

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Question 4

About the meaning of life, Wittgenstein holds that

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A)  only science can help us here. 
B)  language has so far been inadequate to the task of expressing it, but there is hope that it may be developed so as to solve the riddle. 
C)  the riddle can be answered in the clear words of the Tractatus. 
D)  the solution lies in the vanishing of the problem. 
A)  only science can help us here. 
B)  language has so far been inadequate to the task of expressing it, but there is hope that it may be developed so as to solve the riddle. 
C)  the riddle can be answered in the clear words of the Tractatus. 
D)  the solution lies in the vanishing of the problem.

Question 5

Logical positivists

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A)  tend to take the "objects" of the Tractatus to be sense data. 
B)  agree with Wittgenstein about the importance of the mystical. 
C)  agree with Wittgenstein that ethical propositions express the feelings or sentiments of an individual. 
D)  admit they are talking nonsense when they set out the conditions of meaningful language. 
A)  tend to take the "objects" of the Tractatus to be sense data. 
B)  agree with Wittgenstein about the importance of the mystical. 
C)  agree with Wittgenstein that ethical propositions express the feelings or sentiments of an individual. 
D)  admit they are talking nonsense when they set out the conditions of meaningful language.

Question 6

According to the verifiability criterion of factual meaningfulness,

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A)  propositions about God must be verifiable, since they deal with a factual question. 
B)  the meaning of an ethical proposition consists in its conditions of verifiability. 
C)  the criterion is itself verifiable. 
D)  nothing unverifiable can be meaningful. 
A)  propositions about God must be verifiable, since they deal with a factual question. 
B)  the meaning of an ethical proposition consists in its conditions of verifiability. 
C)  the criterion is itself verifiable. 
D)  nothing unverifiable can be meaningful.

About the part of the Tractatus that Wittgenstein did not write, he said that

Why couldn't the "important" part of the Tractatus be written?

Why do tautologies and contradictions "say nothing"? What do they do?

About the meaning of life, Wittgenstein holds that

Logical positivists

According to the verifiability criterion of factual meaningfulness,

Before Philosophy: Myth in Hesiod and Homer

Philosophy Before Socrates

Appearance and Reality in Ancient India

The Sophists: Rhetoric and Relativism in Athens

Reason and Relativism in China

Socrates: to Know Oneself

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Plato: Knowing the Real and the Good

Aristotle: The Reality of the World

Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi: Virtue in Ancient China

Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics: Happiness for the Many

Jews and Christians: Sin, Salvation, and Love

Augustine: God and the Soul

Philosophy in the Islamic World: The Great Conversation Spreads Out

Anselm and Aquinas: Existence and Essence in God and the World

From Medieval to Modern Europe

René Descartes: Doubting Our Way to Certainty

Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley: Materialism and the Beginnings of Empiricism

David Hume: Unmasking the Pretensions of Reason

Immanuel Kant: Rehabilitating Reason Within Strict Limits

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Taking History Seriously

Kierkegaard and Marx: Two Ways to Correct Hegel

Moral and Political Reformers: The Happiness of All, Including Women

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Value of Existence

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Linguistic Analysis and Ordinary Language

Martin Heidegger: The Meaning of Being

Simone De Beauvoir: Existentialist, Feminist

Postmodernism: Derrida, Foucault, and Rorty

Physical Realism and the Mind: Quine, Denne

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Exam 25: The Pragmatists: Thought and Action

About the part of the Tractatus that Wittgenstein did not write, he said that

Why couldn't the "important" part of the Tractatus be written?

Why do tautologies and contradictions "say nothing"? What do they do?

About the meaning of life, Wittgenstein holds that

Logical positivists

According to the verifiability criterion of factual meaningfulness,

Before Philosophy: Myth in Hesiod and Homer

Philosophy Before Socrates

Appearance and Reality in Ancient India

The Sophists: Rhetoric and Relativism in Athens

Reason and Relativism in China

Socrates: to Know Oneself

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Plato: Knowing the Real and the Good

Aristotle: The Reality of the World

Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi: Virtue in Ancient China

Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics: Happiness for the Many

Jews and Christians: Sin, Salvation, and Love

Augustine: God and the Soul

Philosophy in the Islamic World: The Great Conversation Spreads Out

Anselm and Aquinas: Existence and Essence in God and the World

From Medieval to Modern Europe

René Descartes: Doubting Our Way to Certainty

Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley: Materialism and the Beginnings of Empiricism

David Hume: Unmasking the Pretensions of Reason

Immanuel Kant: Rehabilitating Reason Within Strict Limits

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Taking History Seriously

Kierkegaard and Marx: Two Ways to Correct Hegel

Moral and Political Reformers: The Happiness of All, Including Women

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Value of Existence

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Linguistic Analysis and Ordinary Language

Martin Heidegger: The Meaning of Being

Simone De Beauvoir: Existentialist, Feminist

Postmodernism: Derrida, Foucault, and Rorty

Physical Realism and the Mind: Quine, Denne

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