Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
4.28 explained
Wittgenstein states that the number of truth-possibilities of n elementary propositions corresponds to the number of combinations of their truth and falsehood.
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Wittgenstein states that the number of truth-possibilities of n elementary propositions corresponds to the number of combinations of their truth and falsehood.
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- Logical Atomism
The proposition discusses elementary propositions and their truth-possibilities, central to logical atomism.
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- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition
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“To these combinations correspond the same number of possibilities of the truth—and falsehood—of n elementary propositions.”
The number of ways n elementary propositions can be true or false equals the number of combinations of those propositions.
Clarifies the correspondence between combinations and truth-possibilities.
