@ARTICLE{Dobrzeniecki_Marek_Ludwig_2021,
 author={Dobrzeniecki, Marek},
 number={No 3},
 journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria},
 pages={27-42},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2021},
 publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN},
 publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego},
 abstract={In Tractatus Logico‑Philosophicus Wittgenstein referred to a relatively small number of philosophers, and Fritz Mauthner was one of them, although his work is nowadays largely forgotten. In thesis 4.0031 Wittgenstein claimed that his critique of language was quite different from Mauthner’s project. What could it mean then for contemporary discussions on the Tractatus? In this paper it is argued that for Wittgenstein it amounted to rejection of both the resolute and the materialistic interpretation of the Tractatus. On the one hand, Mauthner thought that language could not be exhaustively analyzed by semantics and logic. On the other hand, he believed that one of the greatest illusions of philosophers who investigated language was the conviction that one of the most fundamental features of language is its referential function. These are the claims that the proponents of the radical interpretation read into the Tractatus. But thesis 4.0031 shows that they are wrong. Moreover, in his critique of the referential function of language Mauthner associated states of affairs directly with brain states of a given agent. As for the representatives of the materialistic interpretation of the Tractatus, they attribute to theses 5.54–5.5422 a similar view on the relation between man and the world. Hence, thesis 4.0031 falsifies their reading, as well.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Ludwig Wittgenstein and Fritz Mauthner: The significance of thesis 4.0031 for the interpretation of Tractatus Logico‑Philosophicus},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121111/2021-03-PFIL-02-Dobrzeniecki.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/pfns.2021.138098},
 keywords={critique of language, logic of language, the materialistic interpretation of the TLP, F. Mauthner, the resolute interpretation of the TLP, L. Wittgenstein, word fetishism},
}