Tractatus logico-philosophicus

A philosophical work by Ludwig Wittgenstein

5.43

That from a fact p an infinite number of others should follow, namely, p, p, etc., is indeed hardly to be believed, and it is no less wonderful that the infinite number of propositions of logic (of mathematics) should follow from half a dozen “primitive propositions”. But the propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.


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