Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
2.062 explained
This proposition asserts that atomic facts are logically independent; the existence or nonexistence of one atomic fact does not imply anything about the existence or nonexistence of another.
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This proposition asserts that atomic facts are logically independent; the existence or nonexistence of one atomic fact does not imply anything about the existence or nonexistence of another.
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- Logical Atomism
The independence of atomic facts is a core tenet of logical atomism, emphasizing that elementary propositions are logically independent.
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“From the existence or nonexistence of an atomic fact we cannot infer the existence or nonexistence of another.”
The truth or falsity of one atomic fact gives no logical information about the truth or falsity of any other atomic fact.
This expresses the logical independence of atomic facts in Wittgenstein's ontology.
