Ideal language philosophy

Philosophy using an idealized language

Ideal language philosophy is contrasted with ordinary language philosophy. From about 1910 to 1930, analytic philosophers like Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein emphasized creating an ideal language for philosophical analysis, which would be free from the ambiguities of natural language that, in their opinion, often made for philosophical error. During this phase, Russell and Wittgenstein sought to understand language (and hence philosophical problems) by using formal logic to formalize the way in which philosophical statements are made. Wittgenstein developed a comprehensive system of logical atomism in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (German: Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung, 1921). He thereby argued that the universe is the totality of facts and not things: actual states of affairs and that these states of affairs can be expressed by the language of first-order predicate logic. Thus a picture of the universe can be construed by means of expressing atomic facts in the form of atomic propositions, and linking them using logical operators.

## See also

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* Formal language theory
* Linguistic philosophy

## References

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* Barber, Alex; Stainton, Robert, eds. (2010). Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Elsevier. p. 47\. ISBN 978-0-08-096500-0. OCLC 377840723.
* Moore, A. W. (2012). The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 230, 242, 224–54\. ISBN 978-1-139-02922-3. OCLC 778278812.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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* Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
* Karl Wittgenstein
* Paul Wittgenstein
* Works associated with Paul Wittgenstein

Early work|

* Picture theory of language
* Truth tables
* Truth conditions
* Truth functions
* State of affairs
* Logical necessity
* Wittgenstein's ladder

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* Meaning as use
* Language-game
* Private language argument
* Family resemblance
* Ideal language analysis
* Rule-following
* Form of life
* Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics
* Therapeutic approach
* Anti-skepticism

Publications|

* Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
* "Some Remarks on Logical Form"
* Blue and Brown Books
* Philosophical Remarks
* Philosophical Investigations
* On Certainty
* Culture and Value
* Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
* Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics
* Zettel
* Remarks on Colour
* Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief
* Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology

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* Analytic philosophy
* Linguistic turn
* Ideal language philosophy
* Logical atomism
* Logical positivism
* Pyrrhonian skepticism
* Ordinary language philosophy
* Wittgensteinian fideism
* Quietism
* Therapeutic approach
* Postanalytic philosophy

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* G. E. M. Anscombe
* R. B. Braithwaite
* Rudolf Carnap
* Paul Engelmann
* John Maynard Keynes
* Peter Geach
* Norman Malcolm
* G. E. Moore
* David Pinsent
* Frank P. Ramsey
* Rush Rhees
* Bertrand Russell
* Moritz Schlick
* Francis Skinner
* Piero Sraffa
* Vienna Circle
* Friedrich Waismann
* Peter Winch
* G. H. von Wright

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* David Edmonds
* Ray Monk
* William Warren Bartley

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* A. J. Ayer
* Gordon Baker
* Jacques Bouveresse
* Stanley Cavell
* James F. Conant
* Alice Crary
* Cora Diamond
* Terry Eagleton
* Juliet Floyd
* Warren Goldfarb
* A. C. Grayling
* Peter Hacker
* Oswald Hanfling
* Cressida Heyes
* Jaakko Hintikka
* Dale Jacquette
* Anthony Kenny
* Fergus Kerr
* Saul Kripke
* Sandra Laugier
* Elisabeth Leinfellner
* Werner Leinfellner
* Sabina Lovibond
* Norman Malcolm
* John McDowell
* Colin McGinn
* Marie McGinn
* Stephen Mulhall
* D. Z. Phillips
* Rupert Read
* Constantine Sandis
* Hans Sluga
* Barry Stroud
* Stephen Toulmin
* Michael Williams
* Crispin Wright
* John Wisdom

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* Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society
* Cambridge Apostles
* Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club
* International Wittgenstein Symposium
* Haidbauer incident
* Haus Wittgenstein
* New Wittgenstein
* Fritz Mauthner
* Wittgenstein's Poker

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* Wittgenstein (film)
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