Hertz's philosophy of nature in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Gerd Grasshoff

pp. 243-268

in: Davis Baird, Hughes, Alfred Nordmann (eds), Heinrich Hertz, Berlin, Springer, 1998

Abstract

There is truth in my idea that really in my thinking I am only reproductive. I believe that I have never invented a new line of thought: that has always been given me by someone else. I have only seized on it immediately with a passionate urge for the work of clarification. That is how Boltzmann, Hertz, Schopenhauer, Frege, Russell, Kraus, Loos, Weininger, Spengler, Sraffa influenced me.1

Cited authors

Frege Gottlob

Russell Bertrand

Wittgenstein Ludwig

Schopenhauer Arthur

Hertz Heinrich