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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
2.182 explained
Wittgenstein asserts that every picture is a logical picture, distinguishing logical picturing from spatial picturing.
What happens
Wittgenstein asserts that every picture is a logical picture, distinguishing logical picturing from spatial picturing.
Themes in this chapter
Picture Theory of Language
This proposition directly states that every picture is a logical picture, a core tenet of the picture theory.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition.
Key passages
“Every picture is also a logical picture. (On the other hand, for example, not every picture is spatial.)”
All representations are logical in nature, though not all are spatial.
Clarifies the universal logical character of pictures.