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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Indeed a composite soul would no longer be a soul.


5.5422 The correct explanation of the form of the proposition, 'A makes the
judgement p', must show that it is impossible for a judgement to be a piece
of nonsense. (Russell's theory does not satisfy this requirement.)


5.5423 To perceive a complex means to perceive that its constituents are
related to one another in such and such a way. This no doubt also explains
why there are two possible ways of seeing the figure as a cube; and all
similar phenomena. For we really see two different facts. (If I look in the
first place at the corners marked a and only glance at the b's, then the
a's appear to be in front, and vice versa).


5.55 We now have to answer a priori the question about all the possible
forms of elementary propositions. Elementary propositions consist of names.
Since, however, we are unable to give the number of names with different
meanings, we are also unable to give the composition of elementary
propositions.


5.551 Our fundamental principle is that whenever a question can be decided
by logic at all it must be possible to decide it without more ado. (And if
we get into a position where we have to look at the world for an answer to
such a problem, that shows that we are on a completely wrong track.)


5.552 The 'experience' that we need in order to understand logic is not
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