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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter

2.221 explained

The sense of a picture is what it represents, establishing the connection between a proposition and the state of affairs it depicts.

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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.

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.