Single Idea 23479

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic]

Full Idea

We can see the 'Tractatus' as an attempt to make sense of what is necessarily true of the world - in general, and not just in the mathematical case - without appealing to synthetic a priori truths.

Gist of Idea

The Tractatus aims to reveal the necessities, without appealing to synthetic a priori truths

Source

report of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921]) by Michael Morris - Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus 2H

Book Reference

Morris,Michael: 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' [Routledge 2008], p.113


A Reaction

Morris sees the Tractatus as firmly in the Kantian tradition, and exploring Kant's main project in the first Critique.