Affiliation:
1. Department of Philosophy Matej Bel University Banska Bystrica Slovakia
Abstract
AbstractThe influence of Heinrich Hertz'sThe Principles of Mechanicson Ludwig Wittgenstein'sTractatus Logico‐Philosophicushas been studied for decades, but it has never become a mainstream topic in the Wittgensteinian literature. This paper focusses on Tractarian notions of objects, elementary facts and elementary sentences and discusses their similarities with Hertz's concepts of mass, its constituents and their mechanistic images. As the paper demonstrates, the Hertzian context provides some fruitful interpretational leads concerning several controversial ideas endorsed by early Wittgenstein, namely propositional analysis, logical independence of elementary facts, logical independence of elementary sentences, and modalities.
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