The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

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The following [is the text] of a course of eight lectures delivered
in [Gordon Square] London, in the first months of 1918, [which]
are very largely concerned with explaining certain ideas which
I learnt from my friend and former pupil Ludwig Wittgenstein. I
have had no opportunity of knowing his views since August
1914, and I do not even know whether he is alive or dead. He
has therefore no responsibility for what is said in these lectures
beyond that of having originally supplied many of the theories
contained in them.

1. FACTS AND PROPOSITIONS

This course of lectures which I am now beginning I have
called the Philosophy of Logical Atomism. Perhaps I had better
begin by saying a word or two as to what I understand by
that title. The kind of philosophy that I wish to advocate,
which I call Logical Atomism, is one which has forced itself
upon me in the course of thinking about the philosophy of
mathematics, although I should find it hard to say exactly
written as a preface to publication in The Monist.
how far there is a definite logical connection between the
two. The things I am going to say in these lectures are mainly my
own personal opinions and I do not claim that they are more
than that.