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A proposition must communicate a new sense with old words. The proposition communicates to us a state of affairs, therefore it must be essentially connected with the state of affairs. And the connexion is, in fact, that it is its logical picture. A proposition states something only in so far as it is a picture. 4.031 (2) In the proposition a state of affairs is, as it were, put together for the sake of experiment. One can say, instead of, This proposition has such and such a sense, This proposition represents such and such a state of affairs. 4.032 The proposition is a picture of its state of affairs, only in so far as it is logically articulated. (Even the proposition "ambulo" is composite, for its stem gives a different sense with another termination, or its termination with another system.) |
