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s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

1 By Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) S

| Translated by C. K. Ogden (1889-1957) S

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Troctotus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work B.

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3 lifetime. He wrote it as a soldier and a prisoner of war during World War I.

The slim volume (fewer than eighty pages) comprises a system of short g

Total running time: 04:14:29; read by Geoffrey Edwards. Dedicated Proof-

statements, numbered 1, 1.1, 1.11, 1.12, etc., through to 7, intended to be
such that 1.1 is a comment on or elaboration of 1, 1.11 and 1.12 comments gj
on 1.1, and so forth. It is an ambitious project to identify the relationship
between language and reality and to define the limits of science. (Summary
3 from Wikipedia)

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