Could Wittgenstein still be held as a father of truth tables?
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A recent discussion on the origins of truth tables as notational means is addressed in this paper. Some authors, engaged in a historical and technical investigation, overlook several philosophical features of Wittgenstein’s use of truth tables and its connections with the Tractarian Philosophy of Logic. Here, I discuss the distinction between a use of truth tables as a metaphysical instrument to capture the essence of both language and world and a secularised use, for instance, as a decision tool in propositional logic, without any further substantive philosophical program. The secularized use of truth tables, different from a Tractarian approach, is a use independent of any philosophical account or metaphysical constraint.
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