Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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4.1221 An internal property of a fact can also be bed a feature of that fact (in the sense in which we speak of facial features, for example). 4.123 A property is internal if it is unthinkable that its object should not possess it. (This shade of blue and that one stand, eo ipso, in the internal relation of lighter to darker. It is unthinkable that these two objects should not stand in this relation.) (Here the shifting use of the word 'object' corresponds to the shifting use of the words 'property' and 'relation'.) 4.124 The existence of an internal property of a possible situation is not expressed by means of a proposition: rather, it expresses itself in the proposition representing the situation, by means of an internal property of that proposition. It would be just as nonsensical to assert that a proposition had a formal property as to deny it. 4.1241 It is impossible to distinguish forms from one another by saying that one has this property and another that property: for this presupposes that it makes sense to ascribe either property to either form. 4.125 The existence of an internal relation between possible situations expresses itself in language by means of an internal relation between the propositions representing them. |
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