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4.462

Tautology and contradiction are not pictures of the reality. They present no possible state of affairs. For the one allows every possible state of affairs, the other none.

In the tautology the conditions of agreement with the world -- the presenting relations -- cancel one another, so that it stands in no presenting relation to reality.

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