Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
6.001 explained
This brief remark states that every proposition is the result of successive applications of the operation N'(ξ̅) to elementary propositions, emphasizing the general form of propositions as derived from logical operations.
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This brief remark states that every proposition is the result of successive applications of the operation N'(ξ̅) to elementary propositions, emphasizing the general form of propositions as derived from logical operations.
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- Logical Atomism
The remark illustrates how complex propositions are built from elementary propositions via logical operations.
- The General Form of Proposition is Given
This statement directly gives the general form of proposition as successive applications of N' to elementary propositions.
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- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the Tractatus, presenting the general form of proposition.
Key passages
“This says nothing else than that every proposition is the result of successive applications of the operation N ′ ( ξ ‾ ) to the elementary propositions.”
This simply means that any proposition can be formed by repeatedly applying the joint negation operation to the set of elementary propositions.
Clarifies the iterative logical construction of all propositions.
