Programming and Meaning - Natural and Artificial Reasoning - page 109

1. independent in that they can freely combine to form “states of affairs” that can
be described. This is supported by the statements:
a. T2.01 , A state of affairs (a state of things) is a combination of objects (things)
1. T2.0122 , Things are independent in so far as they can occur in all possible
situations, but this form of independence is a form of connection with states
of affairs, a form of independence.
2. T2.0124 , If all objects are given, then at the same time all possible states
of affairs are also given.
b. T2.0272 , The configuration of objects produces states of affairs.
2. atomic in that there are no smaller constituents:
1. T2.021, Objects make up the substance of the world. That is why they cannot
be composite.
a. T2.02 , Objects are simple.
3. in all possible worlds
1. T2.022 , It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from
the real one, must have something —a form—in common with it.
2. T2.023 , Objects are just what constitute this unalterable form.
4. immaterial
1. T2.0231 The substance of the world can only determine a form, and not
material properties. For it is:
1. only by means of propositions that material properties are represented
2. only by the configuration of objects that they are produced.
2. T2.0233 , If two objects have the same logical form, the only distinction
between them, apart from their external properties, is they are different.
5. indescribable except by their behaviour (form)
1. T2.0121 , It would seem to be a sort of accident, if it turned out that a situation
would fit a thing that could already exist entirely on its own, this possibility
must be in them from the beginning.
1. If things can occur in states of affairs, this possibility must be in them from
the beginning.
2. (Nothing in the province of logic can be merely possible. Logic deals with
every possibility and all possibilities are its facts.)
3. Just as we are quite unable to imagine spatial objects outside space or
temporal objects outside time, so too there is no object that we can imagine
excluded from the possibility of combining with others.
4. If I can imagine objects combined in states of affairs, I cannot imagine
them excluded from the possibility of such combinations.
2. T2.021 , Objects make up the substance of the world. That is why they cannot
be composite.
3. T3.0271 , Objects are what is unalterable and subsistent; their configuration is
what is changing and unstable.
6. self-governed in that they have their own internal rules of behaviour
1. T2.0141 , The possibility of its occurring in states of the affairs is the form of
an object.
2. T2.0121 , see above