#philosophicus

2.15. The fact that the elements of a picture are related to one another in a determinate way represents that thighs are related to one another in the same way. Let us call this connexion of its elements the structure of the picture, and let us call the possibility of this structure the pictorial form of the picture. 2.151. Pictorial form is the possibility that things are related to one another in the same way as the elements of a picture. 2.1511. That is how a picture is attached to reality; it reaches right out to it. 2.1512. It is laid against reality like a measure. 2.15121. Only the end-points of the graduating lines actually touch the object to be measured. 2.1513. So a picture, conceived in this way, also includes the pictorial relationship, which makes it into a picture. 2.1514. The pictorial relationship consists of the correlations of the picture’s elements with things. 2.1514. These correlations are, as it were, the feelers of the picture’s elements, with which it touches reality.

2.0121. It would seem to be a sort of accident, if it turned out that a situation would fit a thing that could already exist entirely on its own. If things can occur in states of affairs, this possibility must be in them from the beginning. (Nothing in the province of logic can be merely possible. Logic deals with every possibility and all possibilities are its facts.) Just as we are quite unable to imagine spatial objects outside space or temporal objects outside time, so too there is no object that we can imagine excluded from the possibility of combining with others. If I can imagine objects combined in states of affairs, I cannot imagine them excluded from the possibility of such combinations.