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Objects I can only name. Signs represent them. I can only speak of them. I cannot assert them. A proposition can only say how a thing is, not what it is.
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Again, in the spirit of map vs territory, he seems to be saying that we can only “point” to objects in reality.
q is it accurate, in the parlance of the Tractatus, to say that a proposition can only say how a thing is, provided it accurately obtains the states-of things it depicts?
