Tractatus logico-philosophicus

A philosophical work by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The fact that the propositions of logic are tautologies shows the formal—logical—properties of language, of the world. That its constituent parts connected together in this way give a tautology characterizes the logic of its constituent parts. In order that propositions connected together in a definite way may give a tautology they must have definite properties of structure. That they give a tautology when so connected shows therefore that they possess these properties of structure.


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