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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
2.063 explained
The proposition asserts that the entirety of reality is identical with the world, establishing a fundamental equivalence between reality and the world in the Tractatus framework.
What happens
The proposition asserts that the entirety of reality is identical with the world, establishing a fundamental equivalence between reality and the world in the Tractatus framework.
Themes in this chapter
Logical Atomism
The identification of total reality with the world reflects the logical atomist view that the world is the sum of all facts.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition defining the total reality as the world.
Key passages
“The total reality is the world.”
Everything that is real constitutes the world.
This equates the scope of reality with the totality of the world.