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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Physical laws, despite their logical structure, ultimately refer to the objects of the world.
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Physical laws, despite their logical structure, ultimately refer to the objects of the world.
Key passages
“Through their whole logical apparatus the physical laws still speak of the objects of the world.”
Even with their logical form, physical laws are about the things in the world.
Clarifies that logical structure does not detach physical laws from reality.