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The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  1. The world is all that is the case. (1)
  2. What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)
  3. The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk ab…
  4. The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)
  5. I once wanted to give a few words in the foreword which now actually are not in it, which, however, I'll write to you now because they migh…
  6. The thought is the significant proposition. (4)
  7. That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
  8. Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consis…

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  • logic
  • reality
  • facts
  • objects

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