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This symbol might be interpreted either as a tautology or a contradiction.< | This symbol might be interpreted either as a tautology or a contradiction.<span class="noebook"><ref>''Note of the editor of the [[Main Page|Ludwig Wittgenstein Project]]’s digital edition:'' The diagram originally drawn by Moore looked like this: | ||
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The paper edition this digital edition is based upon faithfully reproduces Moore’s drawing. In this digital edition, instead, the original diagram was replaced by a corrected version which corresponds to this truth table. | The paper edition this digital edition is based upon faithfully reproduces Moore’s drawing. In this digital edition, instead, the original diagram was replaced by a corrected version which corresponds to this truth table. | ||
See Michael A.R. Biggs. “Editing Wittgenstein’s Notes on Logic. Vol. 1.” ''Working Papers from the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen'', no. 11, 1996, § 1.8.</ref> | See Michael A.R. Biggs. “Editing Wittgenstein’s Notes on Logic. Vol. 1.” ''Working Papers from the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen'', no. 11, 1996, § 1.8.</ref></span> | ||
In settling that it is to be interpreted as a tautology and not as a contradiction, I am not assigning a ''meaning'' to a and b; i.e. saying that they symbolize different things but in the same way. What I am doing is to say that the way in which the a-pole is connected with the whole symbol symbolizes in a ''different way'' from that in which it would symbolize if the symbol were interpreted as a contradiction. And I add the scratches a and b merely in order to shew in which ways the connexion is symbolizing, so that it may be evident that wherever the same scratch occurs in the corresponding place in another symbol, there also the connexion is symbolizing in the same way. | In settling that it is to be interpreted as a tautology and not as a contradiction, I am not assigning a ''meaning'' to a and b; i.e. saying that they symbolize different things but in the same way. What I am doing is to say that the way in which the a-pole is connected with the whole symbol symbolizes in a ''different way'' from that in which it would symbolize if the symbol were interpreted as a contradiction. And I add the scratches a and b merely in order to shew in which ways the connexion is symbolizing, so that it may be evident that wherever the same scratch occurs in the corresponding place in another symbol, there also the connexion is symbolizing in the same way. | ||