Book Chapter

Tractatus 5.4611: 'Signs for logical operations are punctuation marks'

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Citation

Milne P (2013) Tractatus 5.4611: 'Signs for logical operations are punctuation marks'. In: Sullivan P & Potter M (eds.) Wittgenstein's Tractatus : History & Interpretation. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 97-124. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199665785.do

Abstract
I examine the ideas leading up to Wittgenstein's pronouncement at Tractatus 5.4611 that signs for logical operations are punctuation marks.

Keywords
Wittgenstein; Tractatus; Grundgedanke; compositionality; truth-conditional theories of meaning

StatusPublished
Title of seriesMind Association Occasional Series
Publication date28/02/2013
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/19476
PublisherOxford University Press
Publisher URLhttp://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199665785.do
Place of publicationOxford
ISBN978-0-19-966578-5

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Professor Peter Milne

Professor Peter Milne

Emeritus Professor, Philosophy