Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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A picture can represent any reality that shares its form, such as spatial pictures representing spatial realities and colored pictures representing colored realities.
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A picture can represent any reality that shares its form, such as spatial pictures representing spatial realities and colored pictures representing colored realities.
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- Picture Theory of Language
This proposition directly articulates the core of the picture theory: a picture's form determines the range of reality it can represent.
Key passages
“The picture can represent every reality whose form it has.”
A picture is capable of depicting any state of affairs that shares its logical or structural form.
This establishes the scope of representation based on shared form.
