Abstract

According to Wittgenstein statements picture reality as it is or as it might be.1 It is a notorious problem in Wittgenstein scholarship to spell out exactly what is meant by this thesis, and to reconcile Wittgenstein’s various pronouncements on the matter. This exegetical problem is not our main concern (though some light may be thrown on it by what follows) but the thesis itself is extremely suggestive, and elements of it can be used to elucidate what might at first appear to be a purely syntactic approach to the problem of rigorously characterizing truthlikeness. The concept will be defined by means of the properties of certain special formulas (strings of symbols) but this procedure is legitimate only because these formulae, suitably interpreted, picture reality, or possible kinds of states of affairs.

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