x is like y...........x is not like y...........x is the same as y
x is more than y..........x is less than y ..........x does y; so does z
x is similar to y ..........x resembles y......... x is as y as z
x is y like z .........x is more y than z .........x is less y than z
x does y the way z does a
Friday, November 28, 2008
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Ogden translation | Pears/McGuinness translation | |
1. | The world is everything that is the case. | The world is all that is the case. |
2. | What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. | What is the case — a fact — is the existence of states of affairs. |
3. | The logical picture of the facts is the thought. | A logical picture of facts is a thought. |
4. | The thought is the significant proposition. | A thought is a proposition with sense. |
5. | Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. | A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions. |
(An elementary proposition is a truth function of itself.) | (An elementary proposition is a truth function of itself.) | |
6. | The general form of truth-function is [p, ξ, N(ξ)]. | The general form of a truth-function is [p, ξ, N(ξ)]. |
This is the general form of proposition. | This is the general form of a proposition. | |
7. | Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. | What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. |
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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