Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Wittgenstein critiques the modern worldview for the illusion that laws of nature serve as explanations of natural phenomena.
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Wittgenstein critiques the modern worldview for the illusion that laws of nature serve as explanations of natural phenomena.
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- Critique of Traditional Philosophy
Challenges the foundational assumption that laws of nature provide genuine explanations.
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- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition critiquing the modern view of natural laws.
Key passages
“At the basis of the whole modern view of the world lies the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena.”
The modern worldview is founded on the mistaken belief that natural laws explain natural events.
Identifies a fundamental illusion in scientific thinking.
