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Single Idea 18707

[catalogued under 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth]

Full Idea

Thought must have the logical form of reality if it is to be thought at all.

Gist of Idea

All thought has the logical form of reality

Source

Ludwig Wittgenstein (Lectures 1930-32 (student notes) [1931], A V.1)

Book Reference

Wittgenstein,Ludwig: 'Lectures in Cambridge 1930-32', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Blackwell 1980], p.10


A Reaction

This links nicely the idea that true thoughts somehow share the structure of what they refer to, with the idea of logical form in logic. But maybe logical form is a fiction we offer in order to obtain a spurious map of reality.