Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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