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On the Picture Theory of the Tractatus  

Park, Jeong-il (Sookmyung Women's University, College of General Education)
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Korean Journal of Logic / v.22, no.2, 2019 , pp. 253-290 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wittgenstein presents so-called picture theory in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. What is, then, the point of the picture theory? What are the philosophical problems which the picture theory tries to solve? In this paper, I will endeavor to show that the object of a picture is different from the sense of a picture, that the representing relation is different from the projective relation, that picture theory is applied to composite propositions as well as elementary propositions and that on the one hand the basic problems that picture theory tries to solve are problem of theory of meaning and that of theory of truth, but on the other hand the more important problem is what Wittgenstein calls "the mystery of negation." From these discussions, we can see that it is not correct at all to interpret that the picture theory in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is nothing but an analogy which does not have a significant content.
Keywords
Wittgenstein; Tractatus; Picture Theory; Object of a picture; Sense of a picture; Representing relation; Projective relation; Mystery of negation;
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