the hypothesis without sense that was appended for that purpose.)


5.5352 In the same way people have wanted to express, 'There are no things
', by writing 'P(dx) . x = x'. But even if this were a proposition, would
it not be equally true if in fact 'there were things' but they were not
identical with themselves?


5.54 In the general propositional form propositions occur in other
propositions only as bases of truth-operations.


5.541 At first sight it looks as if it were also possible for one
proposition to occur in another in a different way. Particularly with
certain forms of proposition in psychology, such as 'A believes that p is
the case' and A has the thought p', etc. For if these are considered
superficially, it looks as if the proposition p stood in some kind of
relation to an object A. (And in modern theory of knowledge (Russell,
Moore, etc.) these propositions have actually been construed in this way.)


5.542 It is clear, however, that 'A believes that p', 'A has the thought
p', and 'A says p' are of the form '"p" says p': and this does not involve
a correlation of a fact with an object, but rather the correlation of facts
by means of the correlation of their objects.


5.5421 This shows too that there is no such thing as the soul--the subject,
etc.--as it is conceived in the superficial psychology of the present day.