“ The substance of the world can only determine a form and not any material properties. ”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). copy citation
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
|---|---|
| Source | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| Topic | property world |
| Date | 1921 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by C. K. Ogden |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5740/5740-pdf.pdf |
Context
“It is clear that however different from the real one an imagined world may be, it must have something—a form—in common with the real world.
2.023 OGD [→GER | →P/M]
This fixed form consists of the objects.
2.0231 OGD [→GER | →P/M]
The substance of the world can only determine a form and not any material properties. For these are first presented by the propositions—first formed by the configuration of the objects.
2.0232 OGD [→GER | →P/M]
Roughly speaking: objects are colourless.
2.0233 OGD [→GER | →P/M]
Two objects of the same logical form are—apart from their external properties—only differentiated from one another in that they are different.”
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