Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) - Page 19


2.19	The logical picture can depict the world.
2.2	The picture has the logical form of representation in common with what it pictures.
2.201	The picture depicts reality by representing a possibility of the existence and non-existence of Sachverhalte atomic facts.
2.202	The picture represents a possible situation in logical space.
2.203	The picture contains the possibility of the situation which it represents.
2.21	The picture agrees with reality or not; it is right or wrong, true or false.
2.22	The picture represents what it represents, independently of its truth or falsehood, through the form of representation.
2.221	What the picture represents is its sense.
2.222	In the agreement or disagreement of its sense with reality, its truth or falsity consists.
2.223	In order to discover whether the picture is true or false, we must compare it with reality.
2.224	It cannot be discovered from the picture alone whether it is true or false.
2.225	There is no picture which is a priori known independently of experience true.
3	The logical picture of the facts is the thought.
3.001	“An atomic fact is thinkable” means: