# 5.123 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Wittgenstein discusses the logical consequences of a god creating a world with certain true propositions, implying that all consequent propositions must also be true, and that creating a true proposition requires creating all its constituent objects.

## Themes in this chapter

### Logical Atomism

The proposition illustrates the dependence of truth on the existence of objects and the logical structure of the world.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition, exploring logical necessity and creation.

## Key lines

> If a god creates a world in which certain propositions are true, he creates thereby also a world in which all propositions consequent on them are true.

If a deity makes a world where some statements hold, then that world automatically includes all statements that logically follow from them.

_Highlights the logical entailment between propositions in a created world._

> And similarly he could not create a world in which the proposition “ p ” is true without creating all its objects.

Likewise, a god cannot make a world where a specific proposition is true unless all the objects that proposition refers to are also created.

_Emphasizes the dependence of propositional truth on the existence of its constituent objects._

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