Language theory

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who put his efforts primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, of mind, and the philosophy of language. The picture theory of language is a theory of linguistic meaning and reference expressed by him in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. It is the single book published by Wittgenstein. He recommended that a meaningful proposal pictured a state of affairs. The theory resulted because of the comparison of logical pictures with the spatial pictures. This picture theory of language is considered an early correspondence speculation of truth.

The theory of language states that the statements are meaningful only if they can be defined or depicted in the real world. The picture theory is an anticipated description of the relative of representation. This view is occasionally called the picture theory of language, but Wittgenstein has also discussed various representative relationships, including the non-linguistic pictures like the photographs and the sculptures. For him, propositions are the pictures. Language is used to construct or create these pictures. Wittgenstein's theory is one which illustrates on the visual analogy in particular as the proposals are themselves a collection of facts not only mental representations.

This theory states that if a statements picture the world i.e. if a proposal is made that there is a tree in the garden, than the statement is only meaningful and accurate when it actually represent it in the world and only if there is a tree in the garden; but if there is no tree than the proposition does not precisely portrait the world. It is actually the relationship between the language and the world i.e. what can be said to what can be shown.

The illustrative form of a proposition is best captured in the pictographic form of thinking, as it consists only of illustrative form. This pictorial form is a valid structure. Wittgenstein believed that the parts of the logical structure of consideration must in some way be in contact with words as parts of the coherent structure of propositions.

One product of the picture theory is that a priori truth does not have any existence. Truth only comes from the precise and correct representation of a position of associations (i.e., some feature of real world) by any representation (i.e., a proposition). It is said that the entirety of true beliefs is a picture of world. Thus without setting a proposition up adjacent to the real world, it cannot be told that whether the proposition is accurate or fake.