4.12
Propositions can represent the whole reality, but they cannot represent what they must have in common with reality in order to be able to represent it—the logical form. To be able to represent the logical form, we should have to be able to put ourselves with the propositions outside logic, that is outside the world.
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- 4.121 Propositions cannot represent the logical form: this mirrors itself in the propositions. That which…
- 4.122 We can speak in a certain sense of formal properties of objects and atomic facts, or of properties…
- 4.123 A property is internal if it is unthinkable that its object does not possess it. (This bright blue…
- 4.124 The existence of an internal property of a possible state of affairs is not expressed by a…
- 4.125 The existence of an internal relation between possible states of affairs expresses itself in…
- 4.126 In the sense in which we speak of formal properties we can now speak also of formal concepts. (I…
- 4.127 The propositional variable signifies the formal concept, and its values signify the objects which…
- 4.128 The logical forms are anumerical. Therefore there are in logic no pre-eminent numbers, and…