Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Wittgenstein asserts that necessity and impossibility are exclusively logical in nature, rejecting any other forms of necessity or impossibility.
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Wittgenstein asserts that necessity and impossibility are exclusively logical in nature, rejecting any other forms of necessity or impossibility.
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- Logic and Tautology
The proposition emphasizes that necessity and impossibility are purely logical concepts.
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- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition
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“As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logical impossibility.”
Necessity and impossibility are solely logical in nature; there are no other kinds.
Clarifies the exclusive logical basis of necessity and impossibility.
