Witti-Buch2 2001.qxd - Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society

Jimmy Plourde
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Endnote
1 As to Carruthers, we find evidence that he agrred with theses (i) and (ii) in his book
on the semantics of the Tractatus where he writes “the situation represented by a
proposition (the Sinn) may not actually exist in the world, because the prop may be
false” (P. Carruthers, 1989, p. 25). Stenius has an interpretation of the nature of the
relations that subsist between the proposition as a picture and reality which may be
considered as even stronger as the one set out in the reasoning and to which
Simons view comes very close to. According to Stenius, a false proposition not
merely represents a state of affairs but depicts it (er bildet ihn ab): “If the picture is
true, however, it not only represents the prototype, but also depicts it. But if it is
false, it does not depict the prototype, but depicts a possible state of affairs other
than the real one. (E. Stenius, 1960, p. 98)”.
2 On this, see my 2000.
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