Information Theory and Logical Analysis in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
The present article proposes an Informational-Theoretic interpretation of logical analysis applied to natural language in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Natural language is characterized by descriptive definitions in order to compress information according to empirical regularities. However, notati...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 217 - 254 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=163312961&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 163312961 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00483893 1VPF jtl: Philosophia issn: 00483893 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2023 vid: 51 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 163312961 10.1007/s11406-022-00516-w ppf: 217 ppct: 37 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.6MB tig: atl: Information Theory and Logical Analysis in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. aug: au: Lopes, Felipe Oliveira Araújo affil: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil su: Philosophical analysis Mathematics Information theory Scientific language Reductionism sug: subj: Philosophical analysis Mathematics Information theory Scientific language Reductionism keyword: Kolmogorov complexity Logic Wittgenstein ab: The present article proposes an Informational-Theoretic interpretation of logical analysis applied to natural language in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Natural language is characterized by descriptive definitions in order to compress information according to empirical regularities. However, notations fitted to empirical patterns do not explicitly reflect the logical structure of language that enables it to represent those very patterns. I argue that logical analysis is the process of obtaining incompressible and uniformly distributed codes, best fitted to express the possible combinations of facts instead of eventual empirical regularities. That implies mutual translatability between different representations of the same facts, which justifies the possibility to decompose natural language and to rebuild it in mathematized ideographical languages, such as physics. Logical analysis decomposition process, then, results in a reductionism that sets the basis for conceptions of logic and language not only in Tractatus, but also in Some Remarks on Logical Form, which, in turn, is shown to be unattainable in Philosophical Remarks. That posterior book introduces a fragmentation of linguistic systems and analytical methods that can no longer be interpreted under computation theory alone. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Philosophia is a copyright of Springer, 2023. All Rights Reserved. item: Philosophia holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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