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2.063 explained

The proposition asserts that the entirety of reality is identical with the world, establishing a fundamental equivalence between reality and the world in the Tractatus framework.

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The proposition asserts that the entirety of reality is identical with the world, establishing a fundamental equivalence between reality and the world in the Tractatus framework.

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Themes in this chapter

  • Logical Atomism

    The identification of total reality with the world reflects the logical atomist view that the world is the sum of all facts.

Characters to notice

  • Mr. Wittgenstein

    Author of the proposition defining the total reality as the world.

Key passages

  • “The total reality is the world.”

    Everything that is real constitutes the world.

    This equates the scope of reality with the totality of the world.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — 2.063 Explained