On the Picture Theory of Logical Atomism
Tian Hua-yin · Journal of Southwest China Normal University · 2006
Logical atomism suggests that proposition or sentence is the picture of actual being or existence, and atomic proposition is the picture of atomic fact, and molecular proposition is the picture of complicated fact, while language is the big picture of the world. Natural language has puns and equivocation so that it is impossible to find the relation between world and picture unless to create an ideal language. But the picture theory has overwhelming difficulty. This article mainly discusses the difficulty of picture and its reasons.