Laws of Form as emergent from Wittgenstein's Tractatus
"The symbolism of logic can be rightly construed as a determination to reproduce as mechanically as possible the deductive thinking that takes place in our brains in a split second without our knowing how. . . . Accordingly, it is with form that logic is concerned. The content of any argument is nothing more than an inconsequential vehicle of its form. And symbolism is the device for distilling the essence." Gerald B. Standley, New Methods in Symbolic Logic, p.3, 1971 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/offer-listing/039505429X//104-9891999-2979931?condition=all "In trying to place (the syllogism) in a deeper mathematical foundation, we come across (or up against) the inconsequential relation, apparent in ordinary speech, between a form and its content, occasioned by the partly accidental fact that the existence of a particular content can serve to negate a general form." LOF, p.129, 1969 The Essential Tractatus 1. The world is everything that is the