Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
2.1 explained
We construct mental or linguistic pictures that represent facts about the world.
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We construct mental or linguistic pictures that represent facts about the world.
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- Picture Theory of Language
This proposition introduces the core idea that we make pictures of facts, which is the foundation of the picture theory.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition
Key passages
“We make to ourselves pictures of facts.”
We create mental or linguistic representations that depict states of affairs in reality.
Establishes the representational relationship between language and the world.
