Quote #16

What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)

More from Ludwig Wittgenstein

  1. The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)
  2. The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)
  3. The world is all that is the case. (1)
  4. The thought is the significant proposition. (4)
  5. 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…
  6. Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consis…
  7. 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…
  8. It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true. (4.442)

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