Abstract

An elementary proposition, Wittgenstein holds, is a combination of names. Each name stands for an object. And the proposition represents that the objects are *so* combined: that is, that they are combined as their names are combined in the proposition. This essay on Wittgenstein's picture theory focuses on this identity: in what manner are the proposition and its sense combinations of the same kind? Answering this question, we consider that the Tractatus makes no distinction between sense and fact (so Wittgenstein rejects the correspondence theory of truth), and that a proposition is for Wittgenstein the *expression* of its sense.