Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Wittgenstein discusses the nature of operations, noting that one operation can reverse the effect of another and that operations can cancel one another out.
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Wittgenstein discusses the nature of operations, noting that one operation can reverse the effect of another and that operations can cancel one another out.
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- Logic and Tautology
The discussion of operations reversing or canceling each other relates to logical operations and their formal properties.
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- Mr. Wittgenstein
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Key passages
“One operation can reverse the effect of another. Operations can cancel one another.”
An operation may undo the result of a previous operation, and operations can neutralize each other.
Clarifies the reversible and canceling nature of operations in logical space.
