# 5.23 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Wittgenstein defines an operation as the necessary transformation applied to a proposition to generate another proposition from it.

## Themes in this chapter

### Logical Atomism

The operation is a fundamental logical transformation between elementary propositions.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the Tractatus, defining the concept of an operation.

## Key lines

> The operation is that which must happen to a proposition in order to make another out of it.

An operation is the process that transforms one proposition into another.

_Clarifies the role of operations in logical construction._

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