Early Wittgenstein’s View about: “There is something!”

Picture Theory challenges existential propositions possessing meaning. In Tractatus, these propositions are neither elementary nor synthetic. We can find two viewpoints by searching for existence in Tractatus. As the first point of view, Wittgenstein defines “exist” as a formal concept because it is not describing any state of affairs. He states this by saying that such propositions as, “there are 100 objects”, have no meaning. As the second point of view, by presenting a description of, “there is something”, he states that this proposition is preceding experience and even logic. The matter at first glance is similar to Russell’s outcome and way of concluding, but after a second look, Wittgenstein rejects Russell’s opinion of logical representation that, “there is something”, and claims that there is no propositional function representing it. In Wittgenstein’s view, legitimation of using identity in Russell’s logic, causes this error. Therefore, the impossibility of representing a bipolar picture from, “there is something”, beside Part 5.53 of Tractatus, could both be reasons to deny “identity-sing” as an essential constituent of conceptual notation.