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World: The expression "world" refers to the entirety of existence, including the physical universe, diverse cultures, societies, and natural phenomena. It represents the interconnectedness within the cosmos, offering a perspective on the tangible and intangible aspects of existence. See also Totality, Existence, Reality, World/thinking.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on World - Dictionary of Arguments

Hintikka I 100
World/happy/unhappy/Tractatus/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: affected by Moore/Bloomsbury Circle: ethics: the moral status of an action is determined by its consequences. - Presentation of "valuable experience". - Hintikka: then the world with such experiences is another than a world without. Cf. >Ethics
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Wittgenstein II 123
Language/world/Wittgenstein: we have the idea that the language would be held within limits by the world. - ((s) The world causes that statements are true or false.) - But not that the meanings change. - Otherwise a new fact could cause that the statement that it represents, should be read, because of new meanings, as if it would not have occurred. - ((s) This shows that truth and meaning must be distinguished.) >Truth, >Meaning, >Reality, >Causation.
II 138
World/Wittgenstein: totality of facts, not of things: Description - not a list. >Wholes, >Totality, >Facts.
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III 149
World of the happy/unhappy/Tractatus/Wittgenstein/Flor: I am my world: the way in which the world reveals itself to me, also indicates how I am without the facts being different by a whit.
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VI 69
Tractatus/world/Schulte: the world of the Tractatus is ordered according to That-senteces. >That-clauses, cf. >Propositional attitudes.
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VII 19
World/description/properties/Tractatus/Wittgenstein/Tetens: Problem: the world must have the properties, without which it could not be described by statements - Statements: must obey the logic - therefore the logical structure conditions of our statements are also the conditions of possibility of the described world itself - (6.13). >Statements, >Descriptions, >Properties, >Possibility.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

W II
L. Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein’s Lectures 1930-32, from the notes of John King and Desmond Lee, Oxford 1980
German Edition:
Vorlesungen 1930-35 Frankfurt 1989

W III
L. Wittgenstein
The Blue and Brown Books (BB), Oxford 1958
German Edition:
Das Blaue Buch - Eine Philosophische Betrachtung Frankfurt 1984

W IV
L. Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), 1922, C.K. Ogden (trans.), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der Naturphilosophische, XIV (3/4), 1921.
German Edition:
Tractatus logico-philosophicus Frankfurt/M 1960

Hintikka I
Jaakko Hintikka
Merrill B. Hintikka
Investigating Wittgenstein
German Edition:
Untersuchungen zu Wittgenstein Frankfurt 1996

Hintikka II
Jaakko Hintikka
Merrill B. Hintikka
The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Dordrecht 1989

W IV
L. Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), 1922, C.K. Ogden (trans.), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der Naturphilosophische, XIV (3/4), 1921.
German Edition:
Tractatus logico-philosophicus Frankfurt/M 1960


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