Tractarian

Meanings

nounTractarian (plural Tractarians)

AnglicanismA member of the Oxford movement.
Synonyms: Tractite, Tractator, Puseyite

adjectiveTractarian (comparative more Tractarian, superlative most Tractarian)

AnglicanismPertaining to or characteristic of the Oxford movement.
human sciencesPertaining 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

nounA member of the Oxford movement.

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Also see

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

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