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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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The world is fundamentally composed of facts, not things.
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The world is fundamentally composed of facts, not things.
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- Logical Atomism
The division of the world into facts reflects the logical atomist view that reality is composed of atomic facts.
Key passages
“The world divides into facts.”
The world is not a collection of objects, but a structure of facts.
This foundational claim sets up the ontology of the Tractatus.
