Wittgenstein once said that the totality of facts makes up the world. Now, facts are determined from the sum total of counterfactuals determining what are "facts". — Shawn
Or in other words, the logical space of events or state of affairs, that which is, defined, by, again, what something is not. Positive facts are mutually related by negative facts in logical space. — Shawn
And then of course there are the things that are subjective, which you cannot find an objective answer. Like what is beautiful, what is morally right or wrong etc. — ssu
If it is the case that what is in front of me is an apple, then that is one out of an uncountably high number of other things I would have to tick through if I were to define that merely in terms of counterfactuals. — Philosophim
But, the point with this thread is to imagine CFD in logical space, where in logical space everything is simply necessary. — Shawn
Modality in counterfactual definitiveness preserves unitary values. By doing CFD in modal logic preserves unity in outcomes as defined by the counterfactuals in logic alone. — Shawn
Thus, does it follow that if the world is the totality of facts, and counterfactual definiteness defines what the sum total of what a picture of a state of affairs is, then facts are composed of what things aren't, again being counterfactuals.
Logical space to my knowledge is the space of all possibilities, not necessities. Its a possible world logic, where anything that is not impossible can happen. — Philosophim
Such a view is obviously at odds with Wittgenstein's (and much of modern philosophy's) atomism in TLP. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Such a view is obviously at odds with Wittgenstein's (and much of modern philosophy's) atomism in TLP. — Count Timothy von Icarus
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