According to the Tractatus, elementary propositions are concatenations of simple names and are logically independent from one another. It has been claimed both that their logical independence is a consequence of their containing simple names, and that their containing simple names is incompatible with their being logically independent. This paper argues that there is no such incompatibility, but that the simplicity of their names and their logical independence are two different features of eleme…
Read moreAccording to the Tractatus, elementary propositions are concatenations of simple names and are logically independent from one another. It has been claimed both that their logical independence is a consequence of their containing simple names, and that their containing simple names is incompatible with their being logically independent. This paper argues that there is no such incompatibility, but that the simplicity of their names and their logical independence are two different features of elementary propositions that are not to be identified with one another.
