A Visual Representation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Anca Bucur, Sergiu Nisioi
TL;DR
This paper introduces a visualization method for Wittgenstein's Tractatus, using a multilingual corpus to map propositional relations across languages, aiding digital humanities and philosophy of language research.
Contribution
It presents a novel visualization approach based on a multilingual corpus to explore propositional relations in Wittgenstein's work.
Findings
Visual network of propositional relations across languages
Multilingual corpus enables cross-linguistic analysis
Potential applications in digital humanities and philosophy
Abstract
In this paper we present a data visualization method together with its potential usefulness in digital humanities and philosophy of language. We compile a multilingual parallel corpus from different versions of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, including the original in German and translations into English, Spanish, French, and Russian. Using this corpus, we compute a similarity measure between propositions and render a visual network of relations for different languages.
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Taxonomy
TopicsWittgensteinian philosophy and applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis