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Full Idea
The discrimination of things for counting needs to bring with it the notion of identity (and, correlatively, distinctness).
Gist of Idea
Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness
Source
Michael Morris (Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus [2008], Intro.5)
Book Ref
Morris,Michael: 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' [Routledge 2008], p.15
A Reaction
Morris is exploring how practices like counting might reveal necessary truths about the world.
| 23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
| 23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
| 23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
| 23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
| 23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
| 23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |
| 23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |