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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Wittgenstein states that if two propositions mutually imply each other, they are identical.
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Wittgenstein states that if two propositions mutually imply each other, they are identical.
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- Logic and Tautology
Mutual implication defines propositional identity within logical structure
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- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition
Key passages
“If p follows from q and q from p then they are one and the same proposition.”
If two propositions entail each other, they are identical.
Logical equivalence entails identity
