Monday, April 30, 2007

4.013 And if we delve into the essence of this imagery then we see that it is not disturbed by apparent irregularities (like the use of # and Ь in musical notation).

Because even these irregularities picture what they are meant to express; only in another way.


(Sharp and flat are what I mean to indicate here, of course.)


What matters is not how a notation or language looks, but how its signs function.



‘Pictoriality’ is suggested by Black (p. 163) for Bildhaftigkeit. Ogden has ‘pictorial nature,’ P&McG have ‘pictorial character.’ I use ‘imagery’ because that is how Wittgenstein translated the same word in 4.015.

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