# 4.28 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## 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.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition

## Key lines

> 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._

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