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The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in org-mode.
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The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in org-mode.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hrs/tractatus-logico-org
• Owner: hrs
• Created: 2013-07-07T23:22:46.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-03-07T22:29:52.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-30T22:17:24.753Z (about 1 month ago)
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## Tractatus Logico-Org

![tractatus](http://harryrschwartz.com/assets/images/posts/tractatus.png "tractatus")

If you've ever thought to yourself, "Golly, I'd sure love to read one of the seminal works of 20th-century analytical philosophy, but I'd have to leave my beloved Emacs!" then you've sure stumbled onto the right repo.

Wittgenstein's [*Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus) is organized as an outline, which makes it very suitable for transcription into org-mode. This particular version features:

- The original Ogden translation.

- Formulas in LaTeX.

- Truth tables as standard org-mode tables.

### Caveats:

- The *Tractatus* has been displayed as a [tree structure](http://www.tractatuslogico-philosophicus.com/) before, so this isn't a completely original concept. To my knowledge, however, it hasn't been done in org-mode before.

- A few passages in the *Tractatus* make use of illustrations; these aren't currently included. =(

An org-mode-friendly version of *Principia Mathematica* is left as an exercise to the reader.