- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Finding a problem
- Chapter 2 First steps
- Chapter 3 Matter
- Chapter 4 Analysis
- Chapter 5 The fundamental thought
- Chapter 6 The symbolic turn
- Chapter 7 Simplicity
- Chapter 8 Unity
- Chapter 9 Fregean propositions
- Chapter 10 Assertion
- Chapter 11 Complex and fact
- Chapter 12 Forms
- Chapter 13 Russell's theory of judgment
- Chapter 14 Meaning
- Chapter 15 Metaphysics
- Chapter 16 Sense
- Chapter 17 Truth-functions
- Chapter 18 Truth-operations
- Chapter 19 Molecular propositions
- Chapter 20 Generality
- Chapter 21 Resolving the paradoxes
- Chapter 22 Typical ambiguity
- Chapter 23 Identity
- Chapter 24 Sign and symbol
- Chapter 25 Wittgenstein's theory of judgment
- Chapter 26 The picture theory
- Chapter 27 Tractarian objects
- Chapter 28 Philosophy
- Chapter 29 Themes
- Appendix A: History of the text
- [UNTITLED]
- Appendix B: The Notes on Logic
- [UNTITLED]
- Citations
- Index
- Bibliography
The picture theory
The picture theory
- Chapter:
- (p.224) Chapter 26 The picture theory
- Source:
- Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic
- Author(s):
Michael Potter (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Everyone who writes about the Tractatus agrees that the picture theory is one of its central themes, but there is less agreement about just what is meant by the ‘picture theory’. Some use the phrase very broadly as a sort of catch-all for the logical doctrines of the book; others much more narrowly for the specific proposal that propositions are pictures of reality. The question whether the picture theory is already present in the Notes is correspondingly ambiguous. This chapter pieces together the various elements that make up Wittgenstein's semantic theory in an attempt to disambiguate this question.
Keywords: Wittgenstein, Tractatus, semantic theory, picture analogy, truth, identity theory
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Finding a problem
- Chapter 2 First steps
- Chapter 3 Matter
- Chapter 4 Analysis
- Chapter 5 The fundamental thought
- Chapter 6 The symbolic turn
- Chapter 7 Simplicity
- Chapter 8 Unity
- Chapter 9 Fregean propositions
- Chapter 10 Assertion
- Chapter 11 Complex and fact
- Chapter 12 Forms
- Chapter 13 Russell's theory of judgment
- Chapter 14 Meaning
- Chapter 15 Metaphysics
- Chapter 16 Sense
- Chapter 17 Truth-functions
- Chapter 18 Truth-operations
- Chapter 19 Molecular propositions
- Chapter 20 Generality
- Chapter 21 Resolving the paradoxes
- Chapter 22 Typical ambiguity
- Chapter 23 Identity
- Chapter 24 Sign and symbol
- Chapter 25 Wittgenstein's theory of judgment
- Chapter 26 The picture theory
- Chapter 27 Tractarian objects
- Chapter 28 Philosophy
- Chapter 29 Themes
- Appendix A: History of the text
- [UNTITLED]
- Appendix B: The Notes on Logic
- [UNTITLED]
- Citations
- Index
- Bibliography