# 5.14 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Wittgenstein discusses the logical relationship between propositions, stating that if one proposition follows from another, the latter contains more information than the former.

## Themes in this chapter

### Logic and Tautology

The relationship of logical consequence between propositions is examined.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition

## Key lines

> If a proposition follows from another, then the latter says more than the former, the former less than the latter.

When one proposition is a logical consequence of another, the second proposition conveys more information than the first.

_Clarifies the informational asymmetry in logical entailment._

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