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Chapter 5 - That Which ‘Is True’ Must Already Contain the Verb: Wittgenstein’s Rejection of Frege’s Separation of Judgment from Content

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2024

José L. Zalabardo
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University College London
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Truth and content are theoretically prior in Frege to the act of judgment. Wittgenstein takes the opposite view, maintaining that truth is fundamentally correctness in judgment and that a content is fundamentally something to be judged. At Tractatus 4.063, Wittgenstein gives an argument against the Fregean position. Judgment can aim internally at truth, Wittgenstein holds, only if it is internal to truth that it is correctness in judgment.

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Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
A Critical Guide
, pp. 90 - 109
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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