[lit-ideas] Re: "Substance" in the Tractatus
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:31:23 -0700
JL wrote (re the subject line, I think)
I don't think so.
Substaenz is an ugly German idiom, not sure if Witters used it.
"Ding" perhaps. A 'state of affair' (sachverhalt), or 'matter of fact',
perhaps.
I take it that this is an expression of scepticism about whether
Wittgenstein uses the word Substanz in the Tractatus. He does. It's an
important part of the idea that there is an isomorphism between thought,
propositions, and the world.
2.021 Objects make up the substance of the world [die Substanz der
Welt]. That is why they cannot be composite.
2.0211 If the world had no substance [Hätte die Welt keine Substanz],
then whether a proposition had sense would depend on whether another
proposition was true.
Robert Paul
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