
It fits the intense and minimalist spirit of Wittgenstein’s
Tractatus to argue that he not only rejected universal, existential, and negative facts, but also held that complex facts are ontologically nothing over and above atomic facts. Pushing his minimalism to its logical extreme, one might argue that Wittgenstein ultimately viewed the world as consisting of a set of atomic facts, exactly one per object, each involving only that object and chosen from two possible atomic facts pertaining to it. This would effectively render Tractarian objects as binary bits - each capable of being either ‘on’ or ‘off’. The world would then resemble a bit-like informational structure, a series of digital binary states, with each state corresponding to a single atomic fact involving a single object.
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