# 2.1515 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

The coordinations between a picture's elements and objects are described as the 'feelers' through which the picture makes contact with reality.

## Themes in this chapter

### Picture Theory of Language

This proposition elaborates on how a picture's elements coordinate with reality, likening these coordinations to 'feelers' that touch the world.

## Key lines

> These coordinations are as it were the feelers of its elements with which the picture touches reality.

The connections between a picture's parts and the objects they represent are like sensory probes that allow the picture to make contact with the world.

_Clarifies the metaphor of 'feelers' to explain how a picture relates to reality._

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