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
properties are represented--only by the configuration of objects that they
are produced.
2.0232 In a manner of speaking, objects are colourless.
2.0233 If two objects have the same logical form, the only distinction
between them, apart from their external properties, is that they are
different.
2.02331 Either a thing has properties that nothing else has, in which case
we can immediately use a description to distinguish it from the others and
refer to it; or, on the other hand, there are several things that have the
whole set of their properties in common, in which case it is quite
impossible to indicate one of them. For it there is nothing to distinguish
a thing, I cannot distinguish it, since otherwise it would be distinguished
after all.
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