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Single Idea 6849
[filed under theme 6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
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Full Idea
Wittgenstein didn't just have an arguments against logicism; he hated logicism, and described is as a cancerous growth.
Gist of Idea
Wittgenstein hated logicism, and described it as a cancerous growth
Source
report of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921]) by Ray Monk - Interview with Baggini and Stangroom p.12
Book Ref
Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.12
A Reaction
This appears to have been part of an inexplicable personal antipathy towards Russell. Wittgenstein appears to have developed a dislike of all reductionist ideas in philosophy.
The
100 ideas
from 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'
9810
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The 'Tractatus' is a masterpiece of anti-philosophy
[Badiou on Wittgenstein]
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18349
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All truths have truth-makers, but only atomic truths correspond to them
[Wittgenstein, by Rami]
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10967
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Wittgenstein's picture theory is the best version of the correspondence theory of truth
[Read on Wittgenstein]
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7087
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Language is [propositions-elementary propositions-names]; reality is [facts-states of affairs-objects]
[Wittgenstein, by Grayling]
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4702
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The account of truth in the 'Tractatus' seems a perfect example of the correspondence theory
[Wittgenstein, by O'Grady]
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10910
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The best account of truth-making is isomorphism
[Wittgenstein, by Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
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6428
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Wittgenstein is right that logic is just tautologies
[Wittgenstein, by Russell]
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7537
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Wittgenstein convinced Russell that logic is tautologies, not Platonic forms
[Wittgenstein, by Monk]
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13429
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The identity sign is not essential in logical notation, if every sign has a different meaning
[Wittgenstein, by Ramsey]
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18154
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The sign of identity is not allowed in 'Tractatus'
[Wittgenstein, by Bostock]
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9467
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Wittgenstein tried unsuccessfully to reduce quantifiers to conjunctions and disjunctions
[Wittgenstein, by Jacquette]
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13830
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Logical truths are just 'by-products' of the introduction rules for logical constants
[Wittgenstein, by Hacking]
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6849
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Wittgenstein hated logicism, and described it as a cancerous growth
[Wittgenstein, by Monk]
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7090
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The 'Tractatus' is an extreme example of 'Logical Atomism'
[Wittgenstein, by Grayling]
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17665
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The 'Tractatus' is instrumentalist about laws of nature
[Wittgenstein, by Armstrong]
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23507
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Unlike the modern view of a set of worlds, Wittgenstein thinks of a structured manifold of them
[Wittgenstein, by White,RM]
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7088
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Logic and maths can't say anything about the world, since, as tautologies, they are consistent with all realities
[Wittgenstein, by Grayling]
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23479
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The Tractatus aims to reveal the necessities, without appealing to synthetic a priori truths
[Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]
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7084
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What can be said is what can be thought, so language shows the limits of thought
[Wittgenstein, by Grayling]
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23499
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This book says we should either say it clearly, or shut up
[Wittgenstein]
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23459
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This work solves all the main problems, but that has little value
[Wittgenstein]
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13133
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The world is facts, not things. Facts determine the world, and the world divides into facts
[Wittgenstein]
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22311
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The world is determined by the facts, and there are no further facts
[Wittgenstein]
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23462
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He says the world is the facts because it is the facts which fix all the truths
[Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]
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11027
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To know an object you must know all its possible occurrences
[Wittgenstein]
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22321
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To know an object we must know the form and content of its internal properties
[Wittgenstein, by Potter]
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23470
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Each thing is in a space of possible facts
[Wittgenstein]
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23465
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The 'form' of an object is its possible roles in facts
[Wittgenstein]
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23467
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Objects are simple
[Wittgenstein]
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6429
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All complex statements can be resolved into constituents and descriptions
[Wittgenstein]
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23466
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Objects are the substance of the world
[Wittgenstein]
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23469
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An imagined world must have something in common with the real world
[Wittgenstein]
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12869
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Two objects may only differ in being different
[Wittgenstein]
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23468
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Apart from the facts, there is only substance
[Wittgenstein]
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23464
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In atomic facts the objects hang together like chain links
[Wittgenstein]
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23471
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The structure of an atomic fact is how its objects combine; this possibility is its form
[Wittgenstein]
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23473
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Do his existent facts constitute the world, or determine the world?
[Morris,M on Wittgenstein]
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22313
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The existence of atomic facts is a positive fact, their non-existence a negative fact
[Wittgenstein]
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23482
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The 'form' of the picture is its possible combinations
[Wittgenstein]
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7056
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Pictures reach out to or feel reality, touching at the edges, correlating in its parts
[Wittgenstein]
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23483
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Proposition elements correlate with objects, but the whole picture does not correspond to a fact
[Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]
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23486
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Pictures are possible situations in logical space
[Wittgenstein]
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23485
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No pictures are true a priori
[Wittgenstein]
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23487
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What is thinkable is possible
[Wittgenstein]
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7089
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A name is primitive, and its meaning is the object
[Wittgenstein]
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23506
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Names are primitive, and cannot be analysed
[Wittgenstein]
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2939
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If a sign is useless it is meaningless; that is the point of Ockham's maxim
[Wittgenstein]
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23492
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Our language is an aspect of biology, and so its inner logic is opaque
[Wittgenstein]
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23510
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Most philosophical questions arise from failing to understand the logic of language
[Wittgenstein]
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18268
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Apparent logical form may not be real logical form
[Wittgenstein]
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8172
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To understand a proposition means to know what is the case if it is true
[Wittgenstein]
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23488
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Propositions are understood via their constituents
[Wittgenstein]
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23489
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We translate by means of proposition constituents, not by whole propositions
[Wittgenstein]
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23511
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Propositions use old expressions for a new sense
[Wittgenstein]
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10905
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My fundamental idea is that the 'logical constants' do not represent
[Wittgenstein]
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22314
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On white paper a black spot is a positive fact and a white spot a negative fact
[Wittgenstein]
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23508
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Science is all the true propositions
[Wittgenstein]
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7968
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A relation is internal if it is unthinkable that its object should not possess it
[Wittgenstein]
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7969
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The order of numbers is an internal relation, not an external one
[Wittgenstein]
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7784
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'Object' is a pseudo-concept, properly indicated in logic by the variable x
[Wittgenstein]
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21682
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If a proposition is elementary, no other elementary proposition contradicts it
[Wittgenstein]
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22319
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Analysis must end in elementary propositions, which are combinations of names
[Wittgenstein]
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18277
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If q implies p, that is justified by q and p, not by some 'laws' of inference
[Wittgenstein]
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21683
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Nothing can be inferred from an elementary proposition
[Wittgenstein]
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16907
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If the truth doesn't follow from self-evidence, then self-evidence cannot justify a truth
[Wittgenstein]
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23493
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'Not' isn't an object, because not-not-p would then differ from p
[Wittgenstein]
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11062
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Logic is a priori because it is impossible to think illogically
[Wittgenstein]
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16909
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Logic is a priori because we cannot think illogically
[Wittgenstein]
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6056
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Identity is not a relation between objects
[Wittgenstein]
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22322
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You can't define identity by same predicates, because two objects with same predicates is assertable
[Wittgenstein]
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6057
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Two things can't be identical, and self-identity is an empty concept
[Wittgenstein]
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23498
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The modern idea of the subjective soul is composite, and impossible
[Wittgenstein]
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23475
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The form of a proposition must show why nonsense is unjudgeable
[Wittgenstein]
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2938
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world
[Wittgenstein]
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23502
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Logic fills the world, to its limits
[Wittgenstein]
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23497
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Solipsism is correct, but can only be shown, not said, by the limits of my personal language
[Wittgenstein]
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2940
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The subject stands outside our understanding of the world
[Wittgenstein]
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23501
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There is no a priori order of things
[Wittgenstein]
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23503
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Strict solipsism is pure realism, with the self as a mere point in surrounding reality
[Wittgenstein]
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18153
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A number is a repeated operation
[Wittgenstein]
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18160
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The concept of number is just what all numbers have in common
[Wittgenstein]
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18161
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The theory of classes is superfluous in mathematics
[Wittgenstein]
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18162
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The propositions of logic are analytic tautologies
[Wittgenstein]
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23495
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The tautologies of logic show the logic of language and the world
[Wittgenstein]
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15089
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Logical proof just explicates complicated tautologies
[Wittgenstein]
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19292
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Logic doesn't split into primitive and derived propositions; they all have the same status
[Wittgenstein]
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23509
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The logic of the world is shown by tautologies in logic, and by equations in mathematics
[Wittgenstein]
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23504
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Logic concerns everything that is subject to law; the rest is accident
[Wittgenstein]
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2941
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Induction accepts the simplest law that fits our experiences
[Wittgenstein]
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9442
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The only necessity is logical necessity
[Wittgenstein]
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17673
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The modern worldview is based on the illusion that laws explain nature
[Wittgenstein]
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23496
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Two colours in the same place is ruled out by the logical structure of colour
[Wittgenstein]
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2942
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The sense of the world must lie outside the world
[Wittgenstein]
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2943
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Ethics cannot be put into words
[Wittgenstein]
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2944
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If a question can be framed at all, it is also possible to answer it
[Wittgenstein]
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6591
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Doubts can't exist if they are inexpressible or unanswerable
[Wittgenstein]
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7086
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Good philosophy asserts science, and demonstrates the meaninglessness of metaphysics
[Wittgenstein]
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23512
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Once you understand my book you will see that it is nonsensical
[Wittgenstein]
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2937
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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence
[Wittgenstein]
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6870
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I say (contrary to Wittgenstein) that philosophy expresses what we thought we must be silent about
[Ansell Pearson on Wittgenstein]
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