# 2.16 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

A fact must share a common structure or form with what it depicts in order to function as a picture.

## Themes in this chapter

### Picture Theory of Language

This proposition directly states the essential requirement for a fact to serve as a picture of reality.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the Tractatus, presenting the condition for a fact to be a picture.

## Key lines

> In order to be a picture a fact must have something in common with what it pictures.

For a fact to represent something else, it must share a common feature or structure with that thing.

_Clarifies the necessary condition for pictorial representation._

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