Lexicon of Arguments

 

Popper I 117
Laws of Nature/Wittgenstein (oral communication, Schlick, I 136): "Instructions for the formation of statements".
>Natural laws.
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Kursbuch 8 IV 98 (German)
Infinity/Law/Wittgenstein: only finite series determine the course of the law. >Rules, >Rule following, >Infinity.
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II 35f
Infinity/Wittgenstein: "infinite" is not an answer to the question "how many? The word "all" refers to an extension, but it is impossible to refer to an infinite extension. Infinity is the property of a law, not an extension.
>Extensions, >Intensions,
II 101
Experience/Causality/Cause/Border/Wittgenstein: all causal laws are reached through experience, therefore we cannot find out what is the cause of experience! If you give a scientific explanation, you describe an experience.
>Experience.
II 236
It is arbitrary whether we declare our laws right and say that we simply do not see the planet, or whether we call the laws wrong.
Here we have a transition between a hypothesis and a grammatical rule.
II 237
Hertz's mechanical theory replaces the three Newtonian laws with a single new one. But this is not a new mechanism. However, this is a new part of mathematics.
II 238
Logic/Convention/Arbitrariness/Wittgenstein: the laws of logic, e.g. the sentences of the excluded third and the one of the contradiction to be excluded are arbitrary!
To forbid this sentence means to adopt what may be a highly recommended system of expression.
>Conventions, >Logic.
II 417
Determining the number of bodies by law is something completely different from counting them.
>Measurements, >Descriptions.
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IV 105
Causality/Law/Natural Law/Tractatus: 6.32 the causality law is not a law, but the form of a law.
6.321 "Causality Law" is a generic name. For example, as in the mechanics.