# 2.1514 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

The representing relation is defined as the coordination between the elements of a picture and the things they represent.

## Themes in this chapter

### Picture Theory of Language

This proposition directly articulates the representing relation as coordinations between picture elements and things, a core component of the picture theory.

## Key lines

> The representing relation consists of the coordinations of the elements of the picture and the things.

The connection that makes a picture represent something is the mapping of its parts to the objects in the world.

_Clarifies the mechanism of representation as a structural mapping._

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