Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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The truth or falsity of a picture cannot be determined from the picture itself.
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The truth or falsity of a picture cannot be determined from the picture itself.
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- Picture Theory of Language
This proposition directly addresses the nature of pictures as representations, asserting that truth-value is not intrinsic to the picture.
Key passages
“It cannot be discovered from the picture alone whether it is true or false.”
A picture does not carry its own truth or falsity within it; that must be determined by comparing it with reality.
Clarifies the distinction between the picture as a representation and its correspondence to facts.
