# 2.221 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## 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 lines

> 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._

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