In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein sees the world as
In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein sees the world as
He says: "The world is all that is the case. The world is the totality of facts, not of things. The world is determined by the facts, and by their being all the facts."
Here's an example. Suppose that you list the things in your bedroom: a chair, a bed, and so on. You haven't thereby said what the chair is like (its color, its materials, and so on) and how it relates to the bed (whether it next to the bed or opposite it). To describe the room completely, you must instead list all the facts about the room (that it has a chair, that the chair is white, that the chair is next to the bed, and so on).
In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein sees the world as
He thinks that the world is real.
In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein sees the world as
He says: "The world is all that is the case. The world is the totality of facts, not of things. The world is determined by the facts, and by their being all the facts."
Here's an example. Suppose that you list the things in your bedroom: a chair, a bed, and so on. You haven't thereby said what the chair is like (its color, its materials, and so on) and how it relates to the bed (whether it next to the bed or opposite it). To describe the room completely, you must instead list all the facts about the room (that it has a chair, that the chair is white, that the chair is next to the bed, and so on).