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//**Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus**

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus// (Essay on Logical Philosophy) was written by famed Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. In this highly influential work, Wittgenstein presented his belief that no question could be satisfactorily resolved unless supported by solid evidence. Philosophy, he argued, was a useless practice, because it could not be tested and its questions could not be answered. This was the birth of logical empiricism, a movement that remains dominant in the United States and Britain to this day (McKay et al 925). Logical empiricism questioned everything that Europeans had traditionally valued, including religion, God, and faith itself. This movement grew out of the general pessimism that had taken over Europe after the first World War, as an entire continent, shaken by the devastation and brutality of war, began to abandon the Enlightenment tenets of reason and progress that had held their faith for so long.