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There are positive & negative facts: if the proposition “this rose is not red” is true, then its ˇwhat it signifies is negative. But the occurrence of the word “not” does not indicate this unless we know that the signification of ˇthe proposition “this rose is red” (when it is true) is positive. It is only from both, the negation & the negated proposition, that we can conclude to a characteristic of the significance of the whole proposition. (We are not here speaking of negations of general propositions, i.e. of such as contain apparent variables.) Negative facts only justify the negations of simpl atomic propositions.)

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.

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