# 4.01 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Wittgenstein asserts that a proposition functions as a picture or model of reality, representing how we think reality is.

## Themes in this chapter

### Picture Theory of Language

The proposition is explicitly described as a picture of reality.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition

## Key lines

> The proposition is a picture of reality.

A proposition depicts reality.

_Core statement of the picture theory._

> The proposition is a model of the reality as we think it is.

A proposition models reality as we conceive it.

_Emphasizes the representational role of propositions._

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