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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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The sense of a picture is what it represents, establishing the connection between a proposition and the state of affairs it depicts.
What happens
The sense of a picture is what it represents, establishing the connection between a proposition and the state of affairs it depicts.
Themes in this chapter
Picture Theory of Language
This aphorism directly states that the sense of a picture is identical to what it represents, a core tenet of the picture theory.
Key passages
“What the picture represents is its sense.”
The meaning of a picture is the situation or state of affairs that it depicts.
Clarifies the relationship between a proposition (as a picture) and its sense.