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The philosophy of logical wholism

David McCarty

pp. 51-123

Abstract

The present paper is one installment in a lengthy task, the replacement of atomistic interpretations of Wittgenstein's Tractatus by a wholistic interpretation on which the world-in-logical-space is not constructed out of objects but objects are abstracted from out of that space. Here, general arguments against atomism are directed toward a specific target, the four aspects of the atomistic reading of Tractatus given in the Hintikkas' Investigating Wittgenstein (Hintikka & Hintikka 1986). The aspects in question are called the semantical, metaphysical, epistemological and formal.

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(1991) Synthese 87 (1).

Pages: 51-123

DOI: 10.1007/BF00485330

Full citation:

McCarty David (1991) „The philosophy of logical wholism“. Synthese 87 (1), 51–123.