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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
4.28 explained
Wittgenstein states that the number of truth-possibilities of n elementary propositions corresponds to the number of combinations of their truth and falsehood.
What happens
Wittgenstein states that the number of truth-possibilities of n elementary propositions corresponds to the number of combinations of their truth and falsehood.
Themes in this chapter
Logical Atomism
The proposition discusses elementary propositions and their truth-possibilities, central to logical atomism.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition
Key passages
“To these combinations correspond the same number of possibilities of the truth—and falsehood—of n elementary propositions.”
The number of ways n elementary propositions can be true or false equals the number of combinations of those propositions.
Clarifies the correspondence between combinations and truth-possibilities.