NMLP P-045874 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein · Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. (London) · 1922
Classic precedence trap. The true first publication of the text is German, 1921, in Wilhelm Ostwald's journal 'Annalen der Naturphilosophie' (vol. 14, the final issue, Leipzig), titled 'Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung' - printed without Wittgenstein's corrections and generally regarded as unauthorised. The 1922 Kegan Paul London volume is the first edition in book form / first English edition and is the copy collected as 'the first'; the New York Harcourt Brace 1922 is the simultaneous American issue - name both the 1921 German periodical and the 1922 London book.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045874 for "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" by Ludwig Wittgenstein (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045874, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).