Wittgenstein philosophy

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The world is made of

facts

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What is a fact?

A situation that is the case

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Language has…

Language has an internal logical structure that mirrors the logical structure of reality, so sentences can meaningfully represent facts.

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Logical structure of the world and language

Wittgenstein argues that language and reality share the same logical structure.

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the picture theory of language.

propositions are meaningful inasmuch they depict (= describe through images) a state of affairs [stato di cose]

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isomorphism

isomorphism refers to the idea that a proposition or statement has the same logical form as the state of affairs it depicts.

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