Yesterday, during lunch, I was speaking to this nice Finnish lass about Wittgenstein (as you do), which reminded me of the following poem:
So Because …
Something in common between the sentence and the state of affairs.
The sentence was made of a sequence of words that stood for things: names.
SO
The arrangement of words in a sentence picture, or mirrored, the arrangement of objects in the fact.
This gave him a remarkable, sort of, lever of the metaphysical kind, where he could then
Read off, he thought, the structure of reality from the structure of language
BECAUSE (he thought)
The structure of reality had to detirmine the structure of language.
Unless language mirrored reality in some way it would be impossible for sentences to mean.
– Kristian, Iceland
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