The Glossary of Anscombe 's book: An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus is very good in understanding the symbols in the Tractatus.
5.1361 We cannot infer the events of the future from those of the present.
Superstition is nothing but belief in the causal nexus.
5.1362 The freedom of the will consists in the impossibility of knowing actions that still lie in the future. We could know them only if causality were an inner necessity like that of logical inference. ---The connexion between knowledge and what is known is that of logical necessity.
('A knows that p is the case' has no sense if p is a tautology.)
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