Written in a prisoner-of-war camp and published after the war, the Tractatus is philosophy as high-tension poetry: numbered propositions building toward the conclusion that all genuinely meaningful language pictures facts, while ethics, aesthetics, and the mystical, the things that matter most, fall outside what can be said. The book ends with a ladder it asks you to kick away.
The world is all that is the case. The world is the totality of facts, not of things. What is the case, a fact, is the existence of states of affairs. A state of affairs is a combination of objects. It is essential to things that they should be possible constituents of states of affairs.
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