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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951

"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"



2.182 Every picture is at the same time a logical one. (On the other hand,
not every picture is, for example, a spatial one.)

2.19 Logical pictures can depict the world.

2.2 A picture has logico-pictorial form in common with what it depicts.

2.201 A picture depicts reality by representing a possibility of existence
and non-existence of states of affairs.

2.202 A picture contains the possibility of the situation that it
represents.

2.203 A picture agrees with reality or fails to agree; it is correct or
incorrect, true or false.

2.22 What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or
falsity, by means of its pictorial form.

2.221 What a picture represents is its sense.

2.222 The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes
its truth or falsity.

2.223 In order to tell whether a picture is true or false we must compare
it with reality.

2.224 It is impossible to tell from the picture alone whether it is true or
false.

2.225 There are no pictures that are true a priori.

3 A logical picture of facts is a thought.

3.001 'A state of affairs is thinkable': what this means is that we can
picture it to ourselves.

3.01 The totality of true thoughts is a picture of the world.

3.02 A thought contains the possibility of the situation of which it is the
thought.


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