2.02 Objects are simple.


2.0201 Every statement about complexes can be resolved into a statement
about their constituents and into the propositions that describe the
complexes completely.


2.021 Objects make up the substance of the world. That is why they cannot
be composite.


2.0211 If they world had no substance, then whether a proposition had sense
would depend on whether another proposition was true.


2.0212 In that case we could not sketch any picture of the world (true or
false).


2.022 It is obvious that an imagined world, however difference it may be
from the real one, must have something-- a form--in common with it.


2.023 Objects are just what constitute this unalterable form.


2.0231 The substance of the world can only determine a form, and not any
material properties. For it is only by means of propositions that material