is that you don’t begin with a grand conception, either of the great American novel or a masterpiece that will hang in the Louvre. And now I say: “This picture has a double function: it informs others, as pictures or words inform - but for one who gives the information it is a representation (or piece of information?) of another kind: for him it is the picture of his image. PI 280: Someone paints a picture in order to show how he imagines a theatre scene. How is one examined in map-reading, for example? I understand this description exactly, I could make a drawing from it. In many cases we might set it up as a criterion of understanding, that one had to be able to represent the sense of a sentence in a drawing ( I am thinking on an officially instituted test of understanding). Z 245: I understand the picture exactly, I could model it in clay. It is as though an exceptionally gifted arranger of grasses should eventually come to think that he had produced at least a tiny blade of grass himself. That is not quite right: not “as proud as if I painted it, but as proud as if I had helped to paint it, as if I had, so to speak, painted a little bit of it. 2)ĬV: Often, when I have had a picture well framed or have hung it in the right surroundings, I have caught myself feeling as proud as if I had painted the picture myself. , and as such they combine into a statement about the world, that is, into a meaning that one can contemplate, admire, reject or refine.” (Fish, 2011, pg. “They are subjects or objects or actions or descriptives. “We may never fly in a hot-air balloon, win a race with a hare, or dance with a prince until midnight, but through stories in books we can learn what it feels like.” (Wolf, 2008, p 86) TLP 4.031: In a proposition a situation is, as it were, constructed by way of experiment. Instead of, ‘This proposition has such and such a sense’, we can simply say, ‘This proposition represents such and such a situation.’ TLP 4.03 A proposition communicates a situation to us, and so it must be essentially connected with the situation. And the connexion is precisely that it is a logical picture. TLP 4.01 A proposition is a picture of reality. A proposition is a picture of reality as we imagine it. “When human beings use to communicate with one another, stringing them together into sequences, patterns of use emerge and become consolidated into grammatical constructions.” (Tomasello, 2003, pg 5) It only describes and in no way explains the use of signs. PI 496: Grammar does not tell us how language must be constructed in order to fulfill its purpose, in order to have such-and-such an effect on human beings. Essential features are those without which the proposition could not express its sense. TLP 3.34: A proposition possesses essential and accidental features. Accidental features are those that result from the particular way in which the propositional sign is produced. TLP 4.03: A proposition must use old expressions to communicate a new sense. “And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning.” (Burgess, 1968, Enderby Outside). (Just as a theme of music is not a blend of notes.) A proposition is articulate. TLP 3.141: A proposition is not a blend of words.
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