# 2.1512 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## 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 lines

> 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._

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