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THE PICTURE THEORY OF MEANING

THE PICTURE THEORY OF MEANING
Although the canvas is a very different sort of object from that which is being painted, the artist can represent the scene by his use of color so that the two share the same “logical form”. In the same way, Wittgenstein believed words can represent reality, if again both share the same logical form
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Later, Wittgenstein came to feel that he had picked on one of the great many tasks that language is able to perform, and generalized a whole theory of meaning from it. Language can do so many other things besides the picturing of reality: it can give orders (this was his own first counter-example) and do all sorts of other things that cannot be said to picture anything. ~ Page 205

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