# 3.32 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Wittgenstein distinguishes between the sign, which is the perceptible aspect of a symbol, and the symbol itself, which includes its logical significance.

## Themes in this chapter

### Limits of Language and Thought

The distinction between sign and symbol touches on how language can be perceived versus how it carries logical meaning.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition distinguishing sign from symbol.

## Key lines

> The sign is the part of the symbol perceptible by the senses.

A sign is the sensory aspect of a symbol, what we can see or hear.

_Clarifies the relationship between the physical mark or sound and its logical role._

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