More from Ludwig Wittgenstein

  1. The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)
  2. Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consis…
  3. What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)
  4. It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true. (4.442)
  5. The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)
  6. A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the fi…
  7. The world is all that is the case. (1)
  8. Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) (5)

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