Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Logic
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
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Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
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The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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Elementary propositions consist of names.
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Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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All propositions are of equal value.
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My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
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