Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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be contrary to the laws of logic.The truth is that we could not say what an
'illogical' world would look like. 3.032 It is as impossible to represent in language anything that 'contradicts logic' as it is in geometry to represent by its coordinates a figure that contradicts the laws of space, or to give the coordinates of a point that does not exist. 3.0321 Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot. 3.04 It a thought were correct a priori, it would be a thought whose possibility ensured its truth. 3.05 A priori knowledge that a thought was true would be possible only it its truth were recognizable from the thought itself (without anything a to compare it with). 3.1 In a proposition a thought finds an expression that can be perceived by the senses. 3.11 We use the perceptible sign of a proposition (spoken or written, etc.) as a projection of a possible situation. The method of projection is to |
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