# 2.222 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Truth or falsity of a proposition is determined by whether its sense agrees or disagrees with reality.

## Themes in this chapter

### Picture Theory of Language

The proposition's sense is a picture of reality, and truth/falsity is the agreement or disagreement of that picture with actual states of affairs.

## Key lines

> In the agreement or disagreement of its sense with reality, its truth or falsity consists.

A proposition is true if what it depicts matches reality, and false if it does not.

_Defines truth as correspondence between the sense of a proposition and the actual world._

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