2.15
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.
2.151
The form of representation is the possibility that the things are combined with one another as are the elements of the picture.
2.1511
Thus the picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it.
2.1512
It is like a scale applied to reality.
2.15121
Only the outermost points of the dividing lines touch the object to be measured.
2.1513
According to this view the representing relation which makes it a picture, also belongs to the picture.
2.1514
The representing relation consists of the co-ordinations of the elements of the picture and the things.
2.1515
These co-ordinations are as it were the feelers of its elements with which the picture touches reality.
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Here he seems to be making a point along the lines of “the map is not the territory”, in that a map of a “picture” is a representation of reality. See also “all models are wrong” and Lacan’s symbolic order.
q Is this to say that logic itself is a heuristic for making sense of reality
