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    Whatever can be referred to must have an internal structure. — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Ultimate simple objects are not ontologically viable as posited in the Tractatus.

    Whatever can be referred to must have an internal structure.

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    Wittgenstein: A Critique reviews the Tractatus, the Blue and Brown books, Remarks on the Foundations of the Mathematics, and the Investigations. The format is to take key aphorisms from Wittgenstein, expound them at considerable length, and then launch objections, which pile up as in a Thomistic Summa, but absent the replies. For example, against the Tractatus, Findlay objects (1) “Ultimate simple objects” are not ontologically viable, whatever can be referred to must have an internal structure,

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