4.2
The sense of a proposition is its agreement and disagreement with the possibilities of the existence and non-existence of the atomic facts.
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- 4.21 The simplest proposition, the elementary proposition, asserts the existence of an atomic fact.
- 4.22 The elementary proposition consists of names. It is a connexion, a concatenation, of names.
- 4.23 The name occurs in the proposition only in the context of the elementary proposition.
- 4.24 The names are the simple symbols, I indicate them by single letters (x, y, z). The elementary…
- 4.25 If the elementary proposition is true, the atomic fact exists; if it is false the atomic fact does…
- 4.26 The specification of all true elementary propositions describes the world completely. The world is…
- 4.27 With regard to the existence of n atomic facts there are Kn = n(nν)∑ν = 0 possibilities. It is…
- 4.28 To these combinations correspond the same number of possibilities of the truth—and falsehood—of n…