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Rh the co-ordinates of a point which does not exist.

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

An a priori true thought would be one whose possibility guaranteed its truth.

Only if we could know a priori that a thought is true if its truth was to be recognized from the thought itself (without an object of comparison).

In the proposition the thought is expressed perceptibly through the senses.

We use the sensibly perceptible sign (sound or written sign, etc.) of the proposition as a projection of the possible state of affairs.

The method of projection is the thinking of the sense of the proposition.

The sign through which we express the thought I call the propositional sign. And the proposition is the propositional sign in its projective relation to the world.

To the proposition belongs everything which belongs to the projection; but not what is projected.

Therefore the possibility of what is projected but not this itself.

In the proposition, therefore, its sense is not yet contained, but the possibility of expressing it.

(“The content of the proposition” means the content of the significant proposition.)

In the proposition the form of its sense is contained, but not its content.

The propositional sign consists in the fact that its elements, the words, are combined in it in a definite way.

The propositional sign is a fact.

The proposition is not a mixture of words Rh