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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter

1.13 explained

The world is constituted by facts existing in logical space.

What happens

The world is constituted by facts existing in logical space.

Themes in this chapter

  • Logical Atomism

    The concept of facts in logical space reflects the logical atomist view that the world is composed of atomic facts.

Key passages

  • The facts in logical space are the world.

    The world consists of the totality of facts that exist within logical space.

    This proposition asserts that the world is not a collection of things but of facts arranged in logical relations.