# 2.182 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## 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.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition.

## Key lines

> 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._

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