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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter

2.1511 explained

The picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it.

What happens

The picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it.

Themes in this chapter

  • Picture Theory of Language

    This proposition directly articulates the connection between a picture (proposition) and reality, asserting that the picture is linked to and reaches up to reality.

Key passages

  • Thus the picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it.

    Therefore, the picture is connected to reality; it extends to and corresponds with it.

    Clarifies the relationship between a proposition and the state of affairs it depicts.