1. Pictures of facts

How to play

1. Read a message such as “The key is in the box.” and set up the stage so that it is true.
2. Compare a report with the stage and change one word in each false sentence.
3. Tell a partner who cannot see the stage where something is, in one sentence that leaves only one possibility.

The idea

In the Tractatus, his early book, a sentence works like a model: its parts stand for things, and their arrangement shows how the things stand. (In the 1922 translation, “make to ourselves pictures” means “picture”.)

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 2.1. Read the passage