Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
6.3 explained
Logical research is the investigation of all regularity; outside logic, everything is accident.
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Logical research is the investigation of all regularity; outside logic, everything is accident.
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- Logic and Tautology
The chapter defines logical research as the investigation of all regularity, contrasting it with the accidental nature of everything outside logic.
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“Logical research means the investigation of all regularity . And outside logic all is accident.”
The study of logic is the study of all that is regular and necessary; anything not governed by logic is purely accidental.
Wittgenstein distinguishes the necessary regularity of logic from the contingency of the world outside it.
