More from Ludwig Wittgenstein

  1. What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)
  2. The thought is the significant proposition. (4)
  3. The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)
  4. Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consis…
  5. The world is all that is the case. (1)
  6. It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true. (4.442)
  7. The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk ab…
  8. A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the fi…

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