# 2.1513 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

The representing relation that constitutes a picture is itself part of the picture.

## Themes in this chapter

### Picture Theory of Language

The representing relation is intrinsic to the picture, not external.

## Key lines

> According to this view the representing relation which makes it a picture, also belongs to the picture.

The relation that allows a picture to represent something is itself a part of the picture.

_Clarifies that the pictorial form includes the relation of representation._

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