Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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2.171 A picture can depict any reality whose form it has. A spatial picture can depict anything spatial, a coloured one anything coloured, etc. 2.172 A picture cannot, however, depict its pictorial form: it displays it. 2.173 A picture represents its subject from a position outside it. (Its standpoint is its representational form.) That is why a picture represents its subject correctly or incorrectly. 2.174 A picture cannot, however, place itself outside its representational form. 2.18 What any picture, of whatever form, must have in common with reality, in order to be able to depict it--correctly or incorrectly--in any way at all, is logical form, i.e. the form of reality. 2.181 A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture. 2.182 Every picture is at the same time a logical one. (On the other hand, not every picture is, for example, a spatial one.) |
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