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Tractarian

noun
/trækˈtɛːɹi.ən/UK/trækˈtɛɹi.ən/US

Etymology

From tract + -arian, in reference to the tracts published by members of the Oxford movement.

  1. derived from tractus — “a haul, drawing, a drawing out”
  2. inherited from traht
  3. inherited from tract
  4. formed as tractarian — “tract + -arian”

Definitions

  1. A member of the Oxford movement.

  2. Pertaining to or characteristic of the Oxford movement.

  3. Pertaining to the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

    • The theory of truth-functions belongs by nature to Formal Logic, and is not intrinsically tied to any particular philosophical theory. However as it appears in the Tractarian milieu, it consorts with four very Tractarian thoughts.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA