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In Steven Nadler (ed.), Wittgenstein. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 151–154 (2011)
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This chapter contains sections titled: “The world is everything that is the case” The Substance of the World Logical Atomism “The proposition only asserts something, in so far as it is a picture” A Very Short History of Logical Atomism Wittgenstein's Motivations The Critique of Logical Atomism Coda Further reading.

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Tractatus, world and its structure ‐ philosophical achievement, two ideas of Tractatus   “ The world is everything that is the case ” ‐ Wittgenstein, modeling his work on Schopenhauer's “ The World as Will and Representation ”   Schopenhauer, speaking of a world ‐ existing only for a thinking subject, characterizing the world   Wittgenstein, correcting himself in the Tractatus ‐ that “the world is my world” and that “I am my world”   Schopenhauer's and Wittgenstein's metaphysical views – different, “I can also speak of a will that is common to the whole world”   Wittgenstein, that the world ‐ a totality of facts, “not of objects”   logical atomism, and Wittgenstein's interest ‐ its appearance in the Tractatus   Moore and Russell, anticipating Wittgenstein's doctrine ‐ that the world is a totality of fact   Wittgenstein's motivations ‐ the fixed, the existent, and the object, being one   Wittgenstein, and notion of simplicity ‐ on which doctrine of logical atomism rests, being language‐relat

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