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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
5.621 explained
The proposition asserts the identity of the world and life, suggesting that the subject's life is coextensive with the world it experiences.
What happens
The proposition asserts the identity of the world and life, suggesting that the subject's life is coextensive with the world it experiences.
Themes in this chapter
Solipsism and the Subject
The identification of world and life implies the subject's world is its life, a key solipsistic idea.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition linking world and life.
Key passages
“The world and life are one.”
The world and the life of the subject are identical.
Expresses the unity of the subject's existence and the world it perceives.