# 6.33 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Wittgenstein asserts that we do not have a priori belief in a specific law like conservation, but we do know a priori the possibility of a logical form.

## Themes in this chapter

### Logic and Tautology

The a priori knowledge of logical form is central to Wittgenstein's view of logic as tautological and independent of empirical laws.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition

## Key lines

> We do not believe a priori in a law of conservation, but we know a priori the possibility of a logical form.

We don't assume a law like conservation is true before experience, but we can know in advance that a logical structure is possible.

_Distinguishes empirical laws from logical forms._

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