Early Wittgenstein claims that complex propositions assert that some range of combinations of simple propositions is true. Complex propositions are compounded out of simple ones by using the logical operators "and," "or," and "not."
Early Wittgenstein claims that complex propositions assert that some range of combinations of simple propositions is true. Complex propositions are compounded out of simple ones by using the logical operators "and," "or," and "not."
This is what Wittgenstein means when he says that every proposition is a truth-function of atomic propositions.
This seems to exclude other ways of compounding propositions. For example, if A and B are atomic propositions, then we can say things like "A and B" -- but we can't say things like "A caused B" or "A happened before B."
Early Wittgenstein claims that complex propositions assert that some range of combinations of simple propositions is true. Complex propositions are compounded out of simple ones by using the logical operators "and," "or," and "not."
This is what Wittgenstein means when he says that every proposition is a truth-function of atomic propositions.
This seems to exclude other ways of compounding propositions. For example, if A and B are atomic propositions, then we can say things like "A and B" -- but we can't say things like "A caused B" or "A happened before B."