
Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Fundamental Relationship Between Propositions
There's no causal relation between these propositions. So all you get is the what's the basic on top of them. Causality is no longer relevant here. You just have a bunch of bare assertions about the world, right? It's just going to be the case that the quark behaves this way. And then the rest of it is built up on that foundation. That's what he means by accidents. I think it's just these are like commandments and there is no reason for them. They just are. Then they're all truth functionally related to the other propositions. We should talk a little more about the truth functionality.
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