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Thursday, August 27, 2020

List of main propositions in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

This post is a list of the 7 main proposition in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

• The world is everything that is the case.
• What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.
• The logical picture of facts is a thought.
• The thought is the significant proposition.
• A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions.
• The general form of truth function is: [p¯,ξ¯,N(ξ¯)]. This is the general form of a proposition.
• Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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