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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (2001, Routledge) 4 stars

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) is the only book-length philosophical work …

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"Mathematics is a method of logic."

I had trouble understanding his references involving Frege and Russell, because I haven't read them yet. Even so, I think I followed the gist of his ideas. Interesting points about solipsism.

At first I thought I could use observations from this book to write some interesting inferencing software, but then Wittgenstein went the other direction and said that I couldn't describe logical rules like that... I have a feeling Frege and Russell will set me free, despite his criticism of Frege's "Theory of meaning of propositions and functions."