---
_id: '58767'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "\tSince the Tractarian ontology was only a formal presentation of our language
    and thinking (of everything intelligible), not metaphysics, its claims that the
    propositions are constructed (4.5), and that “a proposition constructs a world”
    (4.023) indicate the legitimacy of its reconstruction we are going to make in
    the present chapter. It discusses Wittgenstein’s constructivist ontology of ways.
    Wittgenstein’s ways are different both from modi and from tropes. In short, his
    ontology of ways explores the manners in which the elements of one basic ontological
    system can arranged to produce ontological systems of higher order. The advantage
    of this ontology is that it suggests an elegant solution to the problem of constructing
    ontological systems of new order, such as states of affairs, thinking, language,
    logic and works of art. "
author:
- first_name: Nikolay
  full_name: Milkov, Nikolay
  id: '357'
  last_name: Milkov
citation:
  ama: 'Milkov N. Wittgenstein’s Ways. In: Da Costa N, Shyam Wuppuluri, eds. <i>Wittgensteinian :
    Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy</i>. 1st
    ed. The Frontiers Collection. Springer; 2020:7-19. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2">10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2</a>'
  apa: 'Milkov, N. (2020). Wittgenstein’s Ways. In N. Da Costa &#38; Shyam Wuppuluri
    (Eds.), <i>Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s
    Philosophy</i> (1st ed., pp. 7–19). Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2</a>'
  bibtex: '@inbook{Milkov_2020, place={Berlin}, edition={1}, series={The Frontiers
    Collection}, title={Wittgenstein’s Ways}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2">10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2</a>},
    booktitle={Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s
    Philosophy}, publisher={Springer}, author={Milkov, Nikolay}, editor={Da Costa,
    Newton  and Shyam Wuppuluri}, year={2020}, pages={7–19}, collection={The Frontiers
    Collection} }'
  chicago: 'Milkov, Nikolay. “Wittgenstein’s Ways.” In <i>Wittgensteinian : Looking
    at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy</i>, edited by Newton  Da
    Costa and Shyam Wuppuluri, 1st ed., 7–19. The Frontiers Collection. Berlin: Springer,
    2020. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2</a>.'
  ieee: 'N. Milkov, “Wittgenstein’s Ways,” in <i>Wittgensteinian : Looking at the
    World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy</i>, 1st ed., N. Da Costa
    and Shyam Wuppuluri, Eds. Berlin: Springer, 2020, pp. 7–19.'
  mla: 'Milkov, Nikolay. “Wittgenstein’s Ways.” <i>Wittgensteinian : Looking at the
    World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy</i>, edited by Newton  Da
    Costa and Shyam Wuppuluri, 1st ed., Springer, 2020, pp. 7–19, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2">10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2</a>.'
  short: 'N. Milkov, in: N. Da Costa, Shyam Wuppuluri (Eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking
    at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, 1st ed., Springer,
    Berlin, 2020, pp. 7–19.'
corporate_editor:
- Shyam Wuppuluri
date_created: 2025-02-23T14:53:39Z
date_updated: 2025-02-23T15:39:43Z
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_2
edition: '1'
editor:
- first_name: 'Newton '
  full_name: 'Da Costa, Newton '
  last_name: Da Costa
keyword:
- Construction
- Emergence
- Modality
- Tractatus
- Ways
- Wittgenstein
language:
- iso: eng
page: 7-19
place: Berlin
publication: 'Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein''s
  Philosophy'
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-3-030-27568-6
  - 978-3-030-27569-3
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer
series_title: The Frontiers Collection
status: public
title: Wittgenstein's Ways
type: book_chapter
user_id: '357'
year: '2020'
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