← All chapters
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
3.411 explained
Wittgenstein draws an analogy between geometrical and logical place, asserting that both represent the possibility of an existence.
What happens
Wittgenstein draws an analogy between geometrical and logical place, asserting that both represent the possibility of an existence.
Themes in this chapter
Logical Atomism
The concept of logical place as a possibility of existence aligns with the logical atomist view of facts and states of affairs.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition
Key passages
“The geometrical and the logical place agree in that each is the possibility of an existence.”
Both a point in space and a position in logical space are defined by what could possibly exist there.
Clarifies the shared nature of possibility between geometry and logic.