Abstract

In rejecting, In 1929-30, The complete independence of the elementary propositions--According to which any combination of truth-Values for any set of elementary propositions is logically possible--Wittgenstein did not reject an essential element of the "tractatus" system but rather one that fails to cohere with the central picture-Theory of propositions, According to which a method of truth-Valued representation must be capable of presenting 'competing alternative' representations, The false one of these alternatives being false because they fail to 'agree' or 'coincide' with reality, involves an unmotivated rejection of the idea that logical form should exhibit incompatibilities at the atomic level as well as the molecular level, And can be eliminated from the "tractatus" system without eliminating the atomicity of its metaphysics