Theorists of the Trace Part 8/9
Jorinde Voigt / Ludwig Wittgenstein
1. The world is all that is the case.
2. What is the case - a fact - is the existence of states of affairs.
2.01 A state of affairs (a state of things) is a combination of objects (things).
2.013 Each thing is, as it were, in a space of possible states of affairs. This space I can imagine empty, but I cannot imagine the thing without the space.
2.032 The determinate way in which objects are connected in a state of affairs is the structure of the state of affairs.
-Tractatus (trans. D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuiness). [Sachverhalten, here rendered as “states of affairs”, is translated sometimes as “atomic facts”.]
