Before revision: Yet an interest in the law of identity can hardly be attributed to the first gentleman of Europe.” In his Tractatus Ludwig Wittgenstein writes that "roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing".
After revision: Yet an interest in the law of identity can hardly be attributed to the first gentleman of Europe.” In his "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", Ludwig Wittgenstein writes that "roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing".