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Ideas for 'poems', 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' and 'Believing the Axioms I'

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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary

23495	The tautologies of logic show the logic of language and the world [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: The fact that the propositions of logic are tautologies shows the formal - logical - properties of language and the world.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 6.12)
	A reaction: This seems to me an extraordinarily hubristic remark (philosophically speaking), especially coming from a work which famously throws away its own ladder. He is very much pursuing Kant's project.

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible

23487	What is thinkable is possible [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: What is thinkable is possible too.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 3.02)
	A reaction: [Plucked from a context!] The modern tide has turned against this idea. The more clearly you understand the facts, the more restricted the possibilities become. If you think the impossible is possible, it is because you are bad at thinking.