Redes lógicas e a física na linguagem : da mecânica de Hertz a uma leitura não-metafísica do Tractatus

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: João Vitor Ferrari Rabelo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Brasil; FAF - DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOSOFIA; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Tractatus; Hertz; Mecânica; Metafísica; Lógica; Wittgenstein
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/44438; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4364-7643

This work aims to present an interpretation of Hertz’s philosophy of science that may contribute to resolving the dispute over whether or not Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP) offered a substantive response to the question on the relation between language and reality. I argue that Hertz’s work helps to clarify in a specific way central aspects of the early Wittgenstein’s notation, pictorial conception of language and view of Science; and this, I claim, may contribute to a non-metaphysical interpretation of the TLP. More specifically, I advocate that Hertz’s philosophy of science sheds light on the following points of the TLP: i) the formal character of the tractarian concepts (i.e., simple objects, forms); ii) the relation between logic, science and language; and iii) the supposed conventionalist stance of the TLP towards mechanics – to which I offer a counter argument. Furthermore, I argue that these points must be elucidated on the basis of what is shown by the features of the very symbolism presented, and not on a purported metaphysical doctrine of meaning. This, I suggest, may support a non-metaphysical interpretation of the Tractatus.