Tractarian

English

Etymology

From tract +‎ -arian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: trăk-tâʹ-rē-ən
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /trækˈtɛːɹi.ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /trækˈtɛɹi.ən/

Noun

Tractarian (plural Tractarians)

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

   Synonyms: Tractite, Tractator, Puseyite

Derived terms

• Tractarianism
• Tractarianize

Adjective

Tractarian (comparative more Tractarian, superlative most Tractarian)

1. (Anglicanism) Pertaining to or characteristic of the Oxford movement.
2. (philosophy) Pertaining to the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
   • 1990, Donald Peterson, Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy: Three Sides of the Mirror, →ISBN, page 38:

     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.