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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction

18736	Contradiction is between two rules, not between rule and reality [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: Contradiction is between one rule and another, not between rule and reality.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Lectures 1930-32 (student notes) [1931], C XIII)
	A reaction: If I say 'he is sitting' and 'he is standing', it seems to be reality which produces the contradiction. What 'rule' could possibly do it? The rule which says sitting and standing are incompatible? But what makes that so?