# Elementary Propositions and Atomic Facts explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

This chapter introduces the elementary proposition as the simplest form of proposition, which asserts the existence of an atomic fact.

## Themes in this chapter

### Logical Atomism

The elementary proposition directly reflects the logical atomist view that the world consists of atomic facts.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition

## Key lines

> The simplest proposition, the elementary proposition, asserts the existence of an atomic fact.

The most basic kind of statement, the elementary proposition, claims that a particular atomic fact is true.

_Clarifies the relationship between elementary propositions and atomic facts._

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