Tautologies can be true, such as in the case, "Either it is raining or it not raining", but that doesn't mean anything because it's merely an either/or statement. It's always true, so really, there's no importance in it...it's senseless. Tautologies are not nonsense, however, because they are true.
Logic, ethics, aesthetics, and religion are all part of the transcendent, according to Wittgenstein, because each of them has to be shown rather than said. This means that nothing can be said about them.
Wittgenstein asks, "What is a proposition?" A proposition is the basis of everything and constitutes everything. Even things like words don't have any meaning unless they are a part of a proposition.
Take philosophy out of language and put in into math. Logic is the only way to truth.
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