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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.com

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s masterwork, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, is simultaneously the most clearly written and most incredibly dense piece of writing I’ve ever encountered outside of a Springer textbook. The book consists of Wittgenstein basically showing that most philosophical problems can be reduced to issues of linguistic analysis.

The Tractatus is incredibly structured – it’s almost like a big outline, complete with sub-sub-sub-topics – and as a result readily lends itself to online reading! So, if you’re as huge a nerd as I am, you might enjoy the hypertext version of the Tractatus.

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