# 2.1 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

> Chapter companion for Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

## What happens

We construct mental or linguistic pictures that represent facts about the world.

## Themes in this chapter

### Picture Theory of Language

This proposition introduces the core idea that we make pictures of facts, which is the foundation of the picture theory.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition

## Key lines

> We make to ourselves pictures of facts.

We create mental or linguistic representations that depict states of affairs in reality.

_Establishes the representational relationship between language and the world._

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