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'1 The world is everything that is the case.*

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

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1.11 The world is determined by the facts, and by these being all the facts.

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1.13 The facts in logical space are the world.

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2.01 An atomic fact is a combination of objects (entities, things).

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2.012 In logic nothing is accidental: if a thing can occur in an atomic fact the possibility of that atomic fact must already be prejudged in the thing.

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2.0121 It would, so to speak, appear as an accident, when to a thing that could exist alone on its own account, subsequently a state of aairs could be made to t. If things can occur in atomic facts, this possibility must already lie in them

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(A logical entity cannot be merely possible. Logic treats of every possibility, and all possibilities are its facts.) Just as we cannot think of spatial objects at all apart from space, or temporal objects apart from time, so we cannot think of any object apart from the possibility of its connexion with other things. If I can think of an object in the context of an atomic fact, I cannot think of it apart from the possibility of this context.

 

2.02 The object is simple.

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2.0232 Roughly speaking: objects are colourless.

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2.0251 Space, time and colour (colouredness) are forms of objects.

 

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To be continued......

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Books and other resources

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. (C. K. Ogden, m.a., Ed.) London: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD.