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Ludwig Wittgenstein was a man who sought truth all his life. In attempting to give more sense to a truth he could not define, he wrote the ‘Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’. The ‘Tractatus’ is a work that mainly describes the world as made of facts, which are pictured by thoughts. After having read this work, I chose six of the statements made in the ‘Tractatus’ and tried to explain as best as I could their relation to thinking, reality and language. ... 1 of the ‘Tractatus’ affirms that “The world is the totality of facts, not of things” (Wittgenstein) and this proposition can be linked to propositions 2 and 2.01 which state that “What is the case – a fact – is the existence of states of affairs” (Wittgenstein) and that “A state of affairs (a state of things) is a combination of objects (things)”(Wittgenstein). ... The reality we call the “world” is not things, but the combination of those things, the same way that language is not composed of words, but of sentences, which are combinations of words that, when used in a certain way, mean a certain thing.
Approximate Word count = 747
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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