title: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: English Translation
author:  Ludwig Wittgenstein 
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: German
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  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  
  
  [1 The world is all that is the case.](Tractatus%20Logico-
  Philosophicus_split_001.html#filepos5670)
  
  [2 What is the case—a fact—is the existence of
  
  
  states of affairs.
  
  [3 A logical picture of facts is a thought.](Tractatus%20Logico-
  Philosophicus_split_001.html#filepos18212)
  
  [4 A thought is a proposition with a sense.](Tractatus%20Logico-
  Philosophicus_split_001.html#filepos35260)
  
  [5 A proposition is a truth-function of elementary
  
  
  propositions.
  
  [6 The general form of a truth-function is [p, E,
  
  
  N(E)]. This is the general form of a proposition.
  
  [7 What we cannot speak about we must pass over in
  
  
  silence.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  
  
  ### Ludwig Wittgenstein
  
  
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  * 1 The world is all that is the case.
  
  
  * 2 What is the case—a fact—is the existence of 
  
  
  states of affairs.
  
  
  * 3 A logical picture o