WITTGENSTEIN'S ORIGINAL SEVEN PRINCIPAL AXIOMS
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:
[ p , E , N(E)].
This is the general form of proposition.
7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.[Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by C. K. Ogden,
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London, 1983.]
SEVEN NEW PRINCIPAL AXIOMS OF CONTEXTUAL LOGIC
1. The world is more than everything that is the case.
2. What is the case, the fact, is the conditional existence of lower-level facts on higher-order
phenomena.
3. The logical picture of the facts is the interplay of thought, conditional existence, and relation with
other things.
4. The propositional sign is one formulation of the thought, and the thought is one formulation of
relationship.
5. Propositions are part of the total, emergent truth of all propositions.
6. The general form of the truth-function is:
t = f(t).
7. When one cannot speak, one must shift perspectives.
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may very well be another profound truth.- Niels Bohr