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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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A proposition is compared to a scale applied to reality, measuring or representing it.
What happens
A proposition is compared to a scale applied to reality, measuring or representing it.
Themes in this chapter
Picture Theory of Language
The metaphor of a scale applied to reality illustrates how propositions function as pictures or measures of reality.
Key passages
“It is like a scale applied to reality.”
A proposition functions as a measuring device that is placed against reality to determine its correspondence.
Wittgenstein uses the analogy of a scale to explain how propositions relate to the world.