Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Wittgenstein asserts that any imagined world, no matter how different from reality, must share a common form with the real world.
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Wittgenstein asserts that any imagined world, no matter how different from reality, must share a common form with the real world.
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- Picture Theory of Language
The shared form between imagined and real worlds relates to the picturing relation in language.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition
Key passages
“It is clear that however different from the real one an imagined world may be, it must have something—a form—in common with the real world.”
Any conceivable world, no matter how unlike the actual world, necessarily shares a structural form with reality.
Emphasizes the necessity of a common logical form for representation.
