Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
5.23 explained
Wittgenstein defines an operation as the necessary transformation applied to a proposition to generate another proposition from it.
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Wittgenstein defines an operation as the necessary transformation applied to a proposition to generate another proposition from it.
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- Logical Atomism
The operation is a fundamental logical transformation between elementary propositions.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the Tractatus, defining the concept of an operation.
Key passages
“The operation is that which must happen to a proposition in order to make another out of it.”
An operation is the process that transforms one proposition into another.
Clarifies the role of operations in logical construction.
