[lit-ideas] "A Proposition Is A Fact" (Tractatus)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:52:26 EDT
In a message dated 4/20/2009 3:43:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Still don't quite understand what TLP means when it asserts a 'proposition
is a fact' (rather than is _of_ a fact)? Perhaps someone might explain.
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Well, perhaps Wittgenstein wasn't too serious on his classical background.
Ditto his brother. His harmonies many regard now as 'simple'.
In Latin, from the Greek,
pro-positio
is an _act_ of 'ponere', to put.
positio is the noun formed out of the preterite form.
The Greek exact equivalent is 'thesis'.
Now, 'pro' in Greek would come out as meta-thesis?
Then there's
pre-positio --
ad - positio
sub- positio
pre -- sub -- positio
etc.
Whereas 'fact' is slightly abused in Latin. It is indeed from 'facere', to
make. As in 'orifice', to make a mouth or hole.
So, that the sun rises from the east is not a _fact_ (unless you are a
silly deist).
It's not a pro-positio either. You _pro-pose_ when you _say_ it.
Cheers,
JL
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