Tractatus-Markdowno-Obsidianicus

This is a modified Markdown version of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, with tags and relations between propositions in Obsidian.md (see bellow.)

Overview

Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base that works on top of your local folder of plain text files.

You can research tags in Obsidian so it shows you the connections between children-propositions with the same theme accross different propositions.

Now with Canvas, you have a structured version of the Tractatus you can interact with !

Requirements

Download and install Obsidian from the official website.
Please use 7zip or Winrar to unzip the folder if it doesn't work with Windows 10.

Prepare

Computer

• Clone this repository, or download it as a zip and unzip it
• Open the folder as a Vault in Obsidian
• Click on the circling arrow to "Refresh Index" in Breadcrumbs (on the top right)
• Navigate freely through the book.

Mobile

• If you are on mobile, use the Desktop mode of your browser, then click on the green button "code" that will appear.
• You can now download the .zip
• Download Obsidian on your mobile and open the folder as a vault.

Update

• Canvas including all propositions
• Canvas for each proposition with their children
• Ontology with Breadcrumbs plugin, which allows relations such as : parent, child, etc.
• tags are now hidden, you can access them through the right column or in edit mode
• Internal links are also hidden, as it is redundant with Breadcrumbs

This project was made possible thanks to the Tractatus Logico-Markdownicus. I used the Markdownicus and adapted it for Obsidian.md, therefore, here is the Obsidianicus !
I had to break each proposition into markdown notes, plus I added hashtags, so we have a thematic graph view on Obsidian.

Note

I made this Tractatus Logico-Obsidianicus alone, based on the "Tractatus Markdownicus" (see bellow).
The idea behind this project was to test my skills with Obsidian on a philosophical book. I thought Wittgenstein's Thesis was particularly Obsidian-friendly because of its structure. I used the plugin Breadcrumbs to make an ontology. So it is now possible to view parents notes, child notes, etc. There are other projects like mine on the internet, but they do not have tags neither canvas, which is why my project is singular.

The main issue during this project was to transform Hashtags from the Markdownicus source into Obsidian Notes.
I solved it with the plugin Note Refactor. It really helped me and saved a lot of time.
In the future, I would like to automatize the tagging process, as it takes too much time to make alone.
A big problem with the method I used is that it totally depends on me.

Opinion

Even though this project may popularize Wittgenstein's philosophy, I disagree with the Tractatus on many points.
If you want to go deeper about this, please read other works from Wittgenstein and also, see:

• Paul Horwich's Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy.
• John Dewey's philosophy, pragmatism and naturalism
• Dual Inheritence Theory in Cultural Evolution
• Free Energy Principle and Enactive Inference

Contributing

I manually made tags, so if you have a suggestion to automate the process with Natural Language Processing, I take it !
If you have any suggestion in order to sort out tags or if you think I missed something, start an issue or send me a message !

Here are other projects based on the Tractatus

• https://github.com/shushcat/tractatus-logico-markdownicus/
  Tractatus in Markdown, which I took as a basis for this project

• http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/map/
  Tractatus as a Train map

• https://www.xmind.net/m/vA2p/
  Tractatus as a MindMap

• https://pbellon.github.io/tractatus-tree/#/
  another MindMap

• https://dstrohmaier.com/A-Different-Map-of-the-Tractatus/
  Tractatus as a vectors-representation of meaning

Here are some cool projects that link philosophy and "digital humanities"

• https://ethics.spinoza.ca/
  Spinoza but better

• http://stereotropes.bocoup.com/
  TvTropes & Feminism

• http://modesofexistence.org/
  Bruno Latour made a book that could totally be on Obsidian because of how it is structured, so if you are determined and if you like his work... good luck !

• https://valentinlageard.github.io/
  Philpapers Graph view Taxonomy