# 2.151 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Wittgenstein defines the form of representation as the possibility that things are combined with one another in the same way as the elements of a picture are combined.

## Themes in this chapter

### Picture Theory of Language

This proposition directly articulates the concept of form of representation within the picture theory.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition

## Key lines

> The form of representation is the possibility that the things are combined with one another as are the elements of the picture.

The way a picture represents reality is based on the possibility that the objects in reality can be combined in the same way as the elements of the picture are combined.

_Clarifies the structural isomorphism between picture and reality._

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