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Summary

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the principal works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in which the author explores the limits of language and thought. Wittgenstein argues that language mirrors the structure of reality, and the meaning of a proposition is determined by its potential for factual verification. The theory of logical atomism presented in this book asserts that complex propositions can be broken down into simpler ones and analyzed in terms of their truth value. The Tractatus is renowned for its concise, aphoristic style and its influence on 20th-century analytical philosophy.