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Rh The picture represents a possible state of affairs in logical space.

The picture contains the possibility of the state of affairs which it represents.

The picture agrees with reality or not; it is right or wrong, true or false.

The picture represents what it represents, independently of its truth or falsehood, through the form of representation.

What the picture represents is its sense.

In the agreement or disagreement of its sense with reality, its truth or falsity consists.

In order to discover whether the picture is true or false we must compare it with reality.

It cannot be discovered from the picture alone whether it is true or false.

There is no picture which is a priori true.

The logical picture of the facts is the thought.

“An atomic fact is thinkable”—means: we can imagine it.

The totality of true thoughts is a picture of the world.

The thought contains the possibility of the state of affairs which it thinks.

What is thinkable is also possible.

We cannot think anything unlogical, for otherwise we should have to think unlogically.

It used to be said that God could create everything, except what was contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is, we could not say of an “unlogical” world how it would look.

To present in language anything which “contradicts logic” is as impossible as in geometry to present by its co-ordinates a figure which contradicts the laws of space; or to give Rh