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Single Idea 10967

[from 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' by Ludwig Wittgenstein, in 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth ]

Full Idea

Wittgenstein's picture theory is without doubt the best thought-out and developed of all the versions of the correspondence theory of truth.

Gist of Idea

Wittgenstein's picture theory is the best version of the correspondence theory of truth

Source

comment on Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921]) by Stephen Read - Thinking About Logic Ch.1

Book Reference

Read,Stephen: 'Thinking About Logic' [OUP 1995], p.14


Related Idea

Idea 23483 Proposition elements correlate with objects, but the whole picture does not correspond to a fact [Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]