LARKIN:
Spring 2003
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DATE: 2-27-03
I.
Objectives
A.
Understand
some of Main Points of Tractatus
B.
Identify
Views that Anticipate Logical Positivism
C.
Discuss
Wittgenstein’s ‘Mysticism’
II.
Lecture:
A.
The
Reduction of Truth-Functions
B.
The
Picture Theory of Meaning
C.
The
Limits of Extensional Language
III.
Discussion:
Wittgenstein on What Cannot be Said
IV.
Next
Time
A.
Topic:
Logical Atomism
B.
Reading: Wittgenstein, Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus
C.
Reading Questions: No reading
questions for Wittgenstein—that would just be cruel.