Whether Euclidean Geometry a Picture of the World

In Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical text, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he indicates thoughts and propositions are pictures, and these pictures are “a model of reality”. A picture, explained by Wittgenstein, is made up of elements and sates of (Biletzki). Moreover, for a picture to be a picture of the world, the picture should be verifiable in reality. One of the mathematical scripts, Euclid’s Elements, also have been regarded as a root of the world....

November 22, 2023 · 10 min · Jiayu Lin