Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Wittgenstein asserts that every picture is a logical picture, distinguishing logical picturing from spatial picturing.
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Wittgenstein asserts that every picture is a logical picture, distinguishing logical picturing from spatial picturing.
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- Picture Theory of Language
This proposition directly states that every picture is a logical picture, a core tenet of the picture theory.
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- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition.
Key passages
“Every picture is also a logical picture. (On the other hand, for example, not every picture is spatial.)”
All representations are logical in nature, though not all are spatial.
Clarifies the universal logical character of pictures.
