Shameless self-plug: some time ago I made an alternative visualization of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. No special reason, just because I wanted to do some experimentation with a text I was already working on.
Well today I sort of run into it by change, and I really liked it! Isn’t that a good feeling when you realize the things you’ve done in the past did actually make some sense?
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Wu added these pithy words on Dec 21 10 at 8:54 amDear Mr. Pasin,
I am writing to you to give a feedback about the original text used in this work of TLP.
As you have mentioned, the work is based on the Project Gutenberg version. I guess that Project Gutenberg used the Pears & McGuinness translation when you were doing the work, but now it changed to the Ogden translation (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5740). And as far as I have checked, most of text in the work is from Pears & McGuinness translation, but a few, in the missing, mistaken, and wrongly indented parts (http://philosurfical.open.ac.uk/tractatus/info-gutenberg.html), from Ogden translation. They are Proposition 2.1513, 2.202, 2.203, 3.22, 3.25, 3.251, 3.26, 4.12, 4.27. And there might be more in the rest of the text.
I would very much appreciate it if you could check the text with Pears & McGuinness translation and change the original text link. And thanks a lot for the brilliant work you have already done!
PS: Get a nice German, and Ogden and Pears & McGuinness translations Side-by-Side-by-Side version of TLP here, http://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/
Sincerely
Wu
mike added these pithy words on Dec 25 10 at 3:41 pmDear Wu, thanks a lot for your comments. I can see the errors and will try to find some time to fix them asap!! That visualization of the Tractatus was just a little experiment I did while working on PhiloSURFical [http://philosurfical.open.ac.uk/] which featured all three translations of the text; in extracting the sentences I must have mixed them up too.. real sorry about that.
By the way thanks for the links you pointed out, very nice stuff!