The essence of logical atomism

Hume and Wittgenstein

Bogusław Wolniewicz

pp. 106-111

in: Rudolf Haller, Johannes L. Brandl (eds), Wittgenstein — eine neubewertung/Wittgenstein — towards a re-evaluation, Berlin, Springer, 1990

Abstract

In philosophy Wittgenstein's Tractatus is the book of the century, in contradistinction also to his Philosophical Investigations which are a pathetic flop. The ideas of the Tractatus are clear and grand, admitting of all kind of development and opening wide fields of logico-philosophical inquiry. The confused and inconclusive ramblings of the Philosophical Investigations are a blind alley leading nowhere.

Cited authors

Hume David

Wittgenstein Ludwig