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D3js Tree of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

ewat456 6y ago
Useful for family trees!
- LeonB 6y ago
  * Unless consanguineal
raminf 6y ago
Great idea, but it would work much better as an educational tool if the text was also presented, with text highlighted to show the conceptual connections.
vajrabum 6y ago
That's cool. It'd be easier to use if in addition to the mouse enter and the arrow keys were handled. That tree gets kind of deep.
stolenmerch 6y ago
Another D3 visualization of the Tractatus and also includes the earlier Prototractatus as well. http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/map/ http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/map/
- alanbernstein 6y ago
  Thanks, this is closer to what I was expecting. Maybe I can finally understand Wittgenstein by using this tree diagram as scaffolding...
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7373737373 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Roget%27s_Thesaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Roget%27s_Thesaurus might be of interest
0kl 6y ago
Another format that I find instructive: http://tractatus-online.appspot.com/Tractatus/jonathan/index.html http://tractatus-online.appspot.com/Tractatus/jonathan/index...
Rerarom 6y ago
Also check http://tractatus.gitlab.io/ http://tractatus.gitlab.io/ https://gitlab.com/tractatus/tractatus.gitlab.io https://gitlab.com/tractatus/tractatus.gitlab.io https://www.clarin-d.de/images/lt4dh/pdf/LT4DH10.pdf https://www.clarin-d.de/images/lt4dh/pdf/LT4DH10.pdf
robin_reala 6y ago
If you’re just looking for the original text, then acabal did a high quality epub (with MathMLed equations) at https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-wittgenstein/tractatus-logico-philosophicus/c-k-ogden https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-wittgenstein/tracta...
masswerk 6y ago
Similar in old-school DHTML, German only: https://www.masswerk.at/WebTLP/pages/map1.html https://www.masswerk.at/WebTLP/pages/map1.html Normal text view: https://www.masswerk.at/WebTLP/ https://www.masswerk.at/WebTLP/
motohagiography 6y ago
Reading all these other examples, feels like Tractatus would be a useful example tool for teaching graphs and RDF. This person's example on github was my favorite of the ones I found, as I was going to implement it like this myself, then had the sense to look it up and see if anyone else had. Some time ago I posted about using these trees for expressing complex ontologies in a way that you can absorb them quickly, Tractatus is a great example of something impenetrable but consistent that could be used as a test for the quality and usability of a teaching ontology scheme. His hierarchical format preceded modern software, but I wonder what his opinion might have been on tabs v. spaces. :) Given it's a treegraph of axioms and rules, I'd wonder if there is an isomorphic or homomorphic graph that could form a syntax tree for a domain specific language or the basis of a reasoner or even a classifier. It's as if the Ted Chiang story writes itself.
jonjacky 6y ago
Michele Pasin's PhiloSurfical web app did a visualization of the Tractatus in the early 2000s, using Common Lisp and Javascript. The app is revived here [1]. There is also code [2] and a writeup [3]. 1. http://philosurfical.open.ac.uk/tractatus/tabs.html http://philosurfical.open.ac.uk/tractatus/tabs.html 2. https://github.com/lambdamusic/PhiloSurfical https://github.com/lambdamusic/PhiloSurfical 3. http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2076 http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2... I recall the original version could show the text in the original German or a choice of English translations, but I can't find that in this revived version.
jonjacky 6y ago
"Analyzing the structure of the Tractatus, we found a style of outline with useful properties that is not supported by modern outliners." [1] 1. https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/2008-12-06 https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/2008-12-06

Useful for family trees!

LeonB 6y ago
* Unless consanguineal

Great idea, but it would work much better as an educational tool if the text was also presented, with text highlighted to show the conceptual connections.

vajrabum 6y ago

That's cool. It'd be easier to use if in addition to the mouse enter and the arrow keys were handled. That tree gets kind of deep.

stolenmerch 6y ago

Another D3 visualization of the Tractatus and also includes the earlier Prototractatus as well. http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/map/ http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/map/

alanbernstein 6y ago
Thanks, this is closer to what I was expecting. Maybe I can finally understand Wittgenstein by using this tree diagram as scaffolding...
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]

7373737373 6y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Roget%27s_Thesaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Roget%27s_Thesaurus might be of interest

0kl 6y ago

Another format that I find instructive: http://tractatus-online.appspot.com/Tractatus/jonathan/index.html http://tractatus-online.appspot.com/Tractatus/jonathan/index...

Rerarom 6y ago

Also check http://tractatus.gitlab.io/ http://tractatus.gitlab.io/ https://gitlab.com/tractatus/tractatus.gitlab.io https://gitlab.com/tractatus/tractatus.gitlab.io https://www.clarin-d.de/images/lt4dh/pdf/LT4DH10.pdf https://www.clarin-d.de/images/lt4dh/pdf/LT4DH10.pdf

robin_reala 6y ago

If you’re just looking for the original text, then acabal did a high quality epub (with MathMLed equations) at https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-wittgenstein/tractatus-logico-philosophicus/c-k-ogden https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-wittgenstein/tracta...

masswerk 6y ago

Similar in old-school DHTML, German only: https://www.masswerk.at/WebTLP/pages/map1.html https://www.masswerk.at/WebTLP/pages/map1.html Normal text view: https://www.masswerk.at/WebTLP/ https://www.masswerk.at/WebTLP/

motohagiography 6y ago

Reading all these other examples, feels like Tractatus would be a useful example tool for teaching graphs and RDF. This person's example on github was my favorite of the ones I found, as I was going to implement it like this myself, then had the sense to look it up and see if anyone else had. Some time ago I posted about using these trees for expressing complex ontologies in a way that you can absorb them quickly, Tractatus is a great example of something impenetrable but consistent that could be used as a test for the quality and usability of a teaching ontology scheme. His hierarchical format preceded modern software, but I wonder what his opinion might have been on tabs v. spaces. :) Given it's a treegraph of axioms and rules, I'd wonder if there is an isomorphic or homomorphic graph that could form a syntax tree for a domain specific language or the basis of a reasoner or even a classifier. It's as if the Ted Chiang story writes itself.

jonjacky 6y ago

Michele Pasin's PhiloSurfical web app did a visualization of the Tractatus in the early 2000s, using Common Lisp and Javascript. The app is revived here [1]. There is also code [2] and a writeup [3]. 1. http://philosurfical.open.ac.uk/tractatus/tabs.html http://philosurfical.open.ac.uk/tractatus/tabs.html 2. https://github.com/lambdamusic/PhiloSurfical https://github.com/lambdamusic/PhiloSurfical 3. http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2076 http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2... I recall the original version could show the text in the original German or a choice of English translations, but I can't find that in this revived version.

jonjacky 6y ago

"Analyzing the structure of the Tractatus, we found a style of outline with useful properties that is not supported by modern outliners." [1] 1. https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/2008-12-06 https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/2008-12-06