Objects as Beings in the Facts of the World

Abstract

In this article, three methodological criteria will be advanced in order to understand ontology in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: substance, potentiality, and contigency. These categories are presented on the basis of Wittgenstein’s logical space, which in the Tractatus, takes on the structure of the disjunctive normal form of a tautology and which explain Wittgenstein’s conception of objects, states of affairs, facts, and inter-relations obtaining among things, reality, and the world.