Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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The representing relation is defined as the coordination between the elements of a picture and the things they represent.
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The representing relation is defined as the coordination between the elements of a picture and the things they represent.
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- Picture Theory of Language
This proposition directly articulates the representing relation as coordinations between picture elements and things, a core component of the picture theory.
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“The representing relation consists of the coordinations of the elements of the picture and the things.”
The connection that makes a picture represent something is the mapping of its parts to the objects in the world.
Clarifies the mechanism of representation as a structural mapping.
