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Rh From the existence or non-existence of an atomic fact we cannot infer the existence or non-existence of another.

The total reality is the world.

We make to ourselves pictures of facts.

The picture presents the facts in logical space, the existence and non-existence of atomic facts.

The picture is a model of reality.

To the objects correspond in the picture the elements of the picture.

The elements of the picture stand, in the picture, for the objects.

The picture consists in the fact that its elements are combined with one another in a definite way.

The picture is a fact.

That the elements of the picture are combined with one another in a definite way, represents that the things are so combined with one another.

This connexion of the elements of the picture is called its structure, and the possibility of this structure is called the form of representation of the picture.

The form of representation is the possibility that the things are combined with one another as are the elements of the picture.

Thus the picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it.

It is like a scale applied to reality.

Only the outermost points of the dividing lines touch the object to be measured.

According to this view the representing relation which makes it a picture, also belongs to the picture.

The representing relation consists of the co-ordinations of the elements of the picture and the things.

These co-ordinations are as it were the feelers of Rh