# 4.11 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

> Chapter companion for Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

## What happens

Wittgenstein equates the totality of true propositions with the entirety of natural science, suggesting that all meaningful factual statements are encompassed by scientific inquiry.

## Themes in this chapter

### Limits of Language and Thought

The proposition defines the boundary of meaningful language as coinciding with natural science.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition linking truth and natural science.

## Key lines

> The totality of true propositions is the total natural science (or the totality of the natural sciences).

All true statements together make up the whole of natural science.

_Wittgenstein identifies truth with scientific knowledge._

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