
Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Probability in Science
The atomic proposition, by the way, just to clarify, it gets its truth value from sharing the logical form. The significance of sort of reducing everything to logic and reducing everything to truth functionality is basically to say that because number theory or mathematics does not get its truth function because it shares a logical form with a state of affairs in the world,. It gets its truth function based on the truth or falsity of components somehow. And arithmetic can be derived from logic. So it's all... ...the piano, saxiums and... Trivially true. Oh, definitely not. Science wants the laws to be able to describe behaviors in the world, or even using Vickin Stini in
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