Logical Atomism

The view that the world consists of atomic facts composed of simple objects, and that language can be analyzed into elementary propositions that directly picture these facts.

The chapter systematically develops the view that the world is composed of atomic facts, and that language mirrors this structure through elementary propositions.

The world is composed of atomic facts, not things.

The world is composed of atomic facts, not physical objects, reflecting the logical structure of language.

The world is composed of facts, not things, reflecting the logical atomist view that reality is a structure of atomic facts.