Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
5.14 explained
Wittgenstein discusses the logical relationship between propositions, stating that if one proposition follows from another, the latter contains more information than the former.
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Wittgenstein discusses the logical relationship between propositions, stating that if one proposition follows from another, the latter contains more information than the former.
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- Logic and Tautology
The relationship of logical consequence between propositions is examined.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition
Key passages
“If a proposition follows from another, then the latter says more than the former, the former less than the latter.”
When one proposition is a logical consequence of another, the second proposition conveys more information than the first.
Clarifies the informational asymmetry in logical entailment.
