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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
2.06 explained
The chapter defines reality as the existence and nonexistence of atomic facts.
What happens
The chapter defines reality as the existence and nonexistence of atomic facts.
Themes in this chapter
Logical Atomism
The chapter presents reality as constituted by the existence and nonexistence of atomic facts, a core tenet of logical atomism.
Key passages
“The existence and nonexistence of atomic facts is the reality.”
Reality consists of which atomic facts obtain and which do not.
This defines reality in terms of the totality of atomic facts and their negations.