Just the facts, ma’am.

— Detective Joe Friday

1. The World (Die Welt): The world is everything that is the case.
2. The Case (Der Fall): What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.
3. The Picture (Das Bild): The logical picture of the facts is the thought.
4. Thought (Gedanke): The thought is the significant proposition.
5. Propositions (Der Satz): Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions.
6. The Form (Die Form): The general form of truth-function is: [p-bar, xi-bar, N(xi-bar)].
7. Silence (Schweigen): Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
8. ( ):

The Tractatus has seven propositions, most with sub-propositions and sub-sub-propositions, etc. I have added the eighth, which is the actual silence of all one cannot speak of. Quite a large section, for all its emptiness.

I also thought it would be nice to have an internet version where you could click and expand down through the sub-sentences. There are already many such versions available for your enjoyment.

I can’t decide whether I like the English or the German version better, so here are both.

Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus

http://www.bazzocchi.com/wittgenstein/tractatus/eng/index.htm

http://www.kfs.org/jonathan/witt/ten.html

https://pbellon.github.io/tractatus-tree/#/

http://daxoliver.com/tractatus/

http://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/

The Tricky Truth about Tractatus Trees (updated)

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