Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Truth or falsity of a proposition is determined by whether its sense agrees or disagrees with reality.
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Truth or falsity of a proposition is determined by whether its sense agrees or disagrees with reality.
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- Picture Theory of Language
The proposition's sense is a picture of reality, and truth/falsity is the agreement or disagreement of that picture with actual states of affairs.
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“In the agreement or disagreement of its sense with reality, its truth or falsity consists.”
A proposition is true if what it depicts matches reality, and false if it does not.
Defines truth as correspondence between the sense of a proposition and the actual world.
