# 5.64 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Wittgenstein argues that solipsism, when fully developed, coincides with pure realism: the self shrinks to an extensionless point, leaving only the reality coordinated with it.

## Themes in this chapter

### Solipsism and the Subject

The chapter directly addresses solipsism, showing that the 'I' reduces to a point and reality remains.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the Tractatus; presents the argument that solipsism and realism converge.

## Key lines

> Here we see that solipsism strictly carried out coincides with pure realism.

When solipsism is taken to its logical extreme, it becomes indistinguishable from pure realism.

_Key insight: the self vanishes, leaving only reality._

> The I in solipsism shrinks to an extensionless point and there remains the reality coordinated with it.

The self in solipsism reduces to a dimensionless point, and only the reality that corresponds to it remains.

_Illustrates the collapse of the subject into the world._

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