Tractatus logico-philosophicus

A philosophical work by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Contradiction is something shared by propositions, which no proposition has in common with another. Tautology is that which is shared by all propositions, which have nothing in common with one another. Contradiction vanishes so to speak outside, tautology inside all propositions. Contradiction is the external limit of the propositions, tautology their substanceless centre.


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