Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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this logical place is guaranteed by the mere existence of the constituents--
by the existence of the proposition with a sense. 3.41 The propositional sign with logical co-ordinates--that is the logical place. 3.411 In geometry and logic alike a place is a possibility: something can exist in it. 3.42 A proposition can determine only one place in logical space: nevertheless the whole of logical space must already be given by it. (Otherwise negation, logical sum, logical product, etc., would introduce more and more new elements in co-ordination.) (The logical scaffolding surrounding a picture determines logical space. The force of a proposition reaches through the whole of logical space.) 3.5 A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. 4 A thought is a proposition with a sense. 4.001 The totality of propositions is language. 4.022 Man possesses the ability to construct languages capable of |
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