Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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This brief remark explains that an equation does not assert identity of meaning between two expressions, but rather characterizes the perspective from which they are considered equivalent.
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This brief remark explains that an equation does not assert identity of meaning between two expressions, but rather characterizes the perspective from which they are considered equivalent.
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- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition, presenting a view on the nature of equations.
Key passages
“The equation characterizes only the standpoint from which I consider the two expressions, that is to say the standpoint of their equality of meaning.”
An equation does not state that two expressions are identical in meaning; rather, it indicates the viewpoint from which we treat them as having the same meaning.
Clarifies the role of equations in logical notation.
