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Ideas for 'Stipulation, Meaning and Apriority', 'Notes on Logic' and '67: Platonic Questions'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts

22312	Facts can be both positive and negative [Wittgenstein, by Potter]
	Full Idea: In 1913 Wittgenstein was explicit that there are both positive and negative facts.
	From: report of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Notes on Logic [1913], B7) by Michael Potter - The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 47 'Mole'
	A reaction: This is a prelude to the Tractatus, in which negative facts are denied in T1.11 (and in a 1919 letter), but then affirmed in T2.06.