# 5.124 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

> Chapter companion for Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

## What happens

This proposition states that a proposition implicitly asserts all propositions that can be logically deduced from it, emphasizing the logical consequences inherent in any assertion.

## Themes in this chapter

### Logic and Tautology

The proposition highlights how logical consequence is embedded within the original assertion, relating to the nature of logical inference.

## Key lines

> A proposition asserts every proposition which follows from it.

If a proposition is true, then all propositions that logically follow from it are also implicitly asserted as true.

_This captures the idea that logical entailment is part of the meaning of a proposition._

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