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Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Law of Causation

In 6.34, he says that all propositions such as the law of causation and nature are a priori intuitions about possible forms in which they can be cast. So by saying everything is causal, it's not actually making concrete predictions. It's like a form of trying to understand the world. And I think it's even stronger than that. It's that those relations are all logical. Yeah. Do you buy that? Do you even know how to take that? I don't know how you reduce physics to logic.

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