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Catherine Legg, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University

Wittgenstein tried to solve all the problems of philosophy in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – but he didn't quite succeed

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How is it that false statements, such as “horses have eight legs”, can be just as meaningful as true statements, such as “horses have four legs”?

Where does logical structure come from? We can describe what the world would be like if the laws of physics were different – could we do the same for the laws of logic?

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