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Tugendhat I 163
Complex/Wittgenstein: E.g. not: "a red circle consists of redness and circularity".
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Tetens VII 75
Complex/Image Theory/Tractatus: the complex characters "aRb" do not say that a stands in relation R to b, but that "a" stands in a relation to "b" (!(s) quotation marks) says that aRb. (Here no quotation marks) (3.1432) - ((s) resolution of the sign into its component parts: the relation on the level of signs says something about the relationship on the level of reality).
>Relations, >Representation, >World, >Picture theory.
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Hintikka I 53
Mean period/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: relations and properties to the objects. Philosophical Grammar (Philosophische Grammatik): "This is the root of the bad expression: the fact is a complex of objects.
>Objects, >Facts.
Example "Here it is said that an ill person is compared to the combination of two things."
Hintikka: such a far-reaching change of opinion is so unlikely that one should assume that the Tractatus rejects the equation of "objects" with individuals or individual things.
I 68
Tractatus: renounces all complex logical forms conceived in the sense of independent entities, there is nothing left but the forms of the objects (there are no forms corresponding to complex logical propositions).
I 68
Thing/complex object/Terminology/Wittgenstein: a complex object is just a thing. We know the complex objects from the point of view and know from the point of view that they are complex.
I 138 ff
Frege/Logic/Sentence/Hintikka: in the Tractatus there is a break with Frege's tradition: Frege's logic is regarded as the theory of complex sentences.
Wittgenstein examines the simplest components of the world and their linguistic substitutes.
>Atomism, >Atomic sentences.
I 148 et seqq.
Truth Function/Tractatus/Hintikka: Main thesis of the Tractatus: (a.o.) "The proposition is a truth function of the elementary sentences".
Wittgenstein/Hintikka: must therefore prove that truth-functional operations (to form complex sets of atoms) have no influence on the image character.
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Wittgenstein II 39
Complexity/Wittgenstein: since an infinite number of special cases belong to a general sentence, it does not make it more complex than if only three or four special cases were belonging to it. A sentence with four special cases is probably more complex than one with three, but in an infinite number of special cases it is a generality of a different logical kind.
II 314
Simple/Simplicity/Complex/Composite/Sense/meaningless/Wittgenstein: Suppose you are asked whether a drawn square is composed or simple, i.e. whether it consists of parts or not.
II 315
Example "Is this uniformly white object composed or simple?" The answer is "it depends."
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III 139
Elementary Theorem/Wittgenstein/Flor: The term elementary theorem is important as an absolute term. Otherwise we deal with ambiguity. What occurs in one context as a simple theorem could be complex in another context. This would also mean that intentional connections between sentences could no longer be excluded.
III 142
There must be an absolute distinction between the simple and the complex.
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IV 31
Complex/Tractatus: 3.3442 the sign of the complex does not dissolve arbitrarily even during analysis.
IV 86
Complex/Tractatus: 5.5423 perceiving a complex means perceiving that its components relate to each other in such or such a way.
This explains why a drawn cube can be perceived as a cube in two ways.
Puzzle: here we really see two different facts.
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VII 75
Complex/Mapping theory/Image theory/Tractatus: not the complex sign "aRb" says that a is in relation R to b, but that "a" is in relation to "b" ((s) quotation marks!), says that aRb. (No quotes here!) (3.1432).
((s) Resolution of the sign into its components: the relation on the level of signs says something about the relation on the level of reality).
>Atomism, >Atomic Sentence.

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