114. The sense of a proposition and the sense of a picture. The
different grammar of the expressions:
“This picture shows people at a village inn.”
“This picture shows the coronation of Napoleon.”
word-language – at least in modern western culture – is the primary
propositional form
the picture – like word-language – is a propositional form –
in many indigenous pre-written word cultures – the picture-proposition
is central
in written Chinese and some other Asian languages the characters are
logograms –
and so in these languages it can be argued that there is no distinction
between the sense of a word and the sense of a picture
a proposition is a proposal – that which is put – and that
which is forward for consideration –
logically speaking a proposition
– a proposal – is open to question –
open to interpretation –
what form it takes – be that of words – picture – music – dance –
etc – is logically irrelevant
what is relevant is that – in
whatever form – the proposition – is recognized as a proposal – open to question – open to interpretation
“This picture shows people at a village inn.”
“This picture shows the coronation of Napoleon.”
yes – these proposals can be given different ‘grammatical’
descriptions
any proposition can be variously described
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