Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Wittgenstein defines the form of representation as the possibility that things are combined with one another in the same way as the elements of a picture are combined.
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Wittgenstein defines the form of representation as the possibility that things are combined with one another in the same way as the elements of a picture are combined.
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- Picture Theory of Language
This proposition directly articulates the concept of form of representation within the picture theory.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition
Key passages
“The form of representation is the possibility that the things are combined with one another as are the elements of the picture.”
The way a picture represents reality is based on the possibility that the objects in reality can be combined in the same way as the elements of the picture are combined.
Clarifies the structural isomorphism between picture and reality.
