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
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"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 case.
2. What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.
3. The logical picture of the facts is the thought.
4. The thought is the significant proposition.
5. Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions.
6. The general form of truth function is: [∂,ß,N(ß)
This is the general form of proposition.
6.001. This says nothing else than that every proposition is the result of successive applications of the operation N' (ß) to the elementary propositions.
5.502. . . . N(ß) is the negation of all the values of the propositional variable ß
7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Pulse negates marker for time of its passage.

(Imaginary space
Oscillation
Transparency)

In evaluating e we imagine ourselves in S0 with e and thus surrounded by the unwritten cross which is the boundary to S1. LOF, p.42
If the value of every other indicator in Sq is n, the oscillation of v will be transmitted through Sq to Sq-1. Under this condition call Sq transparent. LOF, p.43.

The One who denies.

("I, knower, marker, am nothing.")

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