“Pray Thee, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well; that is, to understand.”
(BEN JOHNSON, 1616)
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
(1) The world is all that is the case.
(1.1) The world is the totality of facts, not things.
(1.11) The world is determined by the facts, and by their being all facts.
(1.12) For the totality of facts determines what is the case, and also whatever is not the case.
(1.13) The facts in logical space are the world.
(1.2) The world divides into facts.
(1.21) Each item can be the case or not the case while everything else remains the same.
(2) What is the case—a fact—is the existence of state of affairs.
(2.01) A state of affairs (a state of things) is a combination of objects (things).
(2.011) It is essential to things that they should be possible constituents of state of affairs.
(2.012) In logic nothing is accidental: if a thing can occur in a state of affairs, the possibility of the state of afairs must be written into the thing itself.
(LW, 1921)
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
"... and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee ..."
(JOHN DONNE, 1623)
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