Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

#8 in Philosophy

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

First published 1921Original language EN

8.18.1 / 10
Score out of 1086 ratingsConfidence 37%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
166
Pages
about 3 h
Reading time

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The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein that was published during his lifetime. The project had a broad goal: to identify the relationship between language and reality.

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The sources average 8.3 across 86 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 37% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Philosophy average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.97 8%
Hardcover8.379 92%

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