Tractatus logico-philosophicus

A philosophical work by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Probability is a generalization. It involves a general description of a propositional form. Only in default of certainty do we need probability. If we are not completely acquainted with a fact, but know something about its form. (A proposition can, indeed, be an incomplete picture of a certain state of affairs, but it is always a complete picture.) The probability proposition is, as it were, an extract from other propositions.


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