Single Idea 4702

[catalogued under 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth]

Full Idea

Wittgenstein's account in the 'Tractatus' is often taken as a paradigm instance of a sophisticated correspondence theory of truth.

Gist of Idea

The account of truth in the 'Tractatus' seems a perfect example of the correspondence theory

Source

report of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921]) by Paul O'Grady - Relativism Ch.2

Book Reference

O'Grady,Paul: 'Relativism' [Acumen 2002], p.39


A Reaction

This might explain why I am so much more drawn to the 'Tractatus' than to the later relativistic anti-philosophical mind-eliminitavist, meaning-eliminativist Wittgenstein.

Related Idea

Idea 23483 Proposition elements correlate with objects, but the whole picture does not correspond to a fact [Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]