Saturday 28th November, 1914: In his private diary, LW records that he did a lot of (philosophical) work yesterday, and that he was in the guards office until noon. ‘I believe that I must perish with these raw and vicious people who are tamed by no danger, unless a miracle happens for me that gives me a lot more power and wisdom than I have now! I’m in fear of my future’. Today, he notes, he did little (philosophical) work. His diary entry ends with the invocation: ‘A miracle! A miracle’ (GT2, SS.31-2). LW writes, from the Goplana, to von Ficker, expressing a wish to see him, and thanking him for having sent Trakl’s poems (Luckhardt, p.88), ‘The tone of this truly gifted man’ having entranced him. In his notebook, he remarks that negation combines with the ab-functions (truth-functions) of the elementary proposition, and that ‘the logical functions of the elementary proposition must mirror their reference, just as much as all the others’ (NB, p.34).
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