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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Tractarian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /trækˈtɛɹi.ən/ (General-American)
  • trăk-tâʹ-rē-ən
  • /trækˈtɛːɹi.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From tract + -arian, in reference to the tracts published by members of the Oxford movement.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:Anglicanism) Pertaining to or characteristic of the Oxford movement.
  2. Pertaining to the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
    • The theory of truth-functions belongs by nature to Formal Logic, and is not intrinsically tied to any particular philosophical theory. However as it appears in the Tractarian milieu, it consorts with four very Tractarian thoughts. 1990, Donald Peterson, Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy: Three Sides of the Mirror, →ISBN, page 38:

Forms

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most Tractarian Degree=Sup lexicographic
more Tractarian Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

untractarian

Tractarian en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /trækˈtɛɹi.ən/ (General-American)
  • trăk-tâʹ-rē-ən
  • /trækˈtɛːɹi.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From tract + -arian, in reference to the tracts published by members of the Oxford movement.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:Anglicanism) A member of the Oxford movement.

Forms

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Tractarians Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Tractarianize · Tractarianism

Synonyms

Puseyite · Tractite · Tractator