Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
1.11 explained
The world is determined by the facts, and by these being all the facts.
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The world is determined by the facts, and by these being all the facts.
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- Logical Atomism
The world is composed of facts, not things, reflecting the logical atomist view that reality is a structure of atomic facts.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the Tractatus, presenting the foundational thesis that the world is the totality of facts.
Key passages
“The world is determined by the facts, and by these being all the facts.”
The world consists entirely of facts, and it is the complete set of facts that defines what the world is.
This proposition establishes the fundamental ontology of the Tractatus: the world is the totality of facts, not of things.
