Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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The picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it.
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The picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it.
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- Picture Theory of Language
This proposition directly articulates the connection between a picture (proposition) and reality, asserting that the picture is linked to and reaches up to reality.
Key passages
“Thus the picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it.”
Therefore, the picture is connected to reality; it extends to and corresponds with it.
Clarifies the relationship between a proposition and the state of affairs it depicts.
