Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Question
How does Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus develop the theme of Logical Atomism?
Answer
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein develops Logical Atomism across the chapters the companion marks for this theme.
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.
Evidence in the book
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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 Everything That is the Case
The world is composed of atomic facts, not things.
- 1.1
The world is composed of atomic facts, not physical objects, reflecting the logical structure of language.
- 1.11
The world is composed of facts, not things, reflecting the logical atomist view that reality is a structure of atomic facts.
- 1.12
The totality of facts determines all that is the case and all that is not, reflecting the logical structure of reality.
- 1.13
The concept of facts in logical space reflects the logical atomist view that the world is composed of atomic facts.
- 1.2
The division of the world into facts reflects the logical atomist view that reality is composed of atomic facts.
- 1.21
The independence of atomic states of affairs is a core tenet of logical atomism, as each fact can stand alone without necessitating changes in others.
