The Determination of Form by Syntactic Employment: a Model and a Difficulty

Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society 16:156-158 (2008)
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This paper develops a model for understanding the Tractarian doctrine that a sign insyntactic use determines a form. This doctrine is found to be in tension withWittgenstein's agnosticism with regard to forms of reality.

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