Tractatus logico-philosophicus

A philosophical work by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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That, however, the signs “p” and “~p” can say the same thing is important, for it shows that the sign “~” corresponds to nothing in reality. That negation occurs in a proposition, is no characteristic of its sense (~~p=p). The propositions “p” and “~p” have opposite senses, but to them corresponds one and the same reality.


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