u/DizzleTheByzantine

For a college class I had to read the Tractatus, and found myself really taken with it. I've gone through a bunch of intermediate Wittgenstein (parts of Culture and Value and the Blue Book) and have taken a good bite out of Philosophical Investigations, but am not quite satisfied.

Specifically, I'm interested in how to work the logical form of language, especially in relation to questions of truth and modality (assuming "modality" in the Kantian sense isn't considered an outmoded term), responding to/in conversation with Wittgenstein's alternative atomistic and holistic viewpoints. Yes, asking for certain secondary literature on Wittgenstein is a bit like asking for a specific drop of water from the Pacific Ocean, but it's always worth a shot

I'll throw in now in case it's relevant that I still prefer the Tractatus over Wittgenstein's other work, not necessarily for the logical tightness as so much for the laconic beauty of the way it addresses the chaos of most "transcendental" philosophical problems. I know there's issues like the color exclusion problem which I have no clue how to address, but still I can't help but be attached to it.

As final context, I've definitely got more of a background in what you could call "continental philosophy" (not that Wittgenstein necessarily "belongs" to the analytic) and have really only a basic grasp of mathematical logic. I'm always capable of learning, but figured that would be relevant.

Thanks all!

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u/DizzleTheByzantine — 17 days ago