Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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The coordinations between a picture's elements and objects are described as the 'feelers' through which the picture makes contact with reality.
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The coordinations between a picture's elements and objects are described as the 'feelers' through which the picture makes contact with reality.
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- Picture Theory of Language
This proposition elaborates on how a picture's elements coordinate with reality, likening these coordinations to 'feelers' that touch the world.
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“These coordinations are as it were the feelers of its elements with which the picture touches reality.”
The connections between a picture's parts and the objects they represent are like sensory probes that allow the picture to make contact with the world.
Clarifies the metaphor of 'feelers' to explain how a picture relates to reality.
