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Some notes on the citations of Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” was written between 1912 and 1917 and published in 1921 in Cambridge, where Wittgenstein taught. His book made him one of the progenitors of the linguistic turn in philosophy. The heart of Wittgenstein’s earlier philosophy is the picture theory of language. Wittgenstein tried to show that language and reality had a similar structure. Reality fragmented into “things” (things that interact with each other). Each “thing” has a “name” in language. Meaning is given to a name only once it is placed in a statement. Like the reality of things, sentences fragment in their names. By analyzing statements down to their simplest components, we can in principle arrive at simple statements about things. A statement pictures (or models) a possible situation – a state of affairs about things. Such a statement is true if the corresponding state of affairs exists. If the state of affairs constitutes another structure to that which is portrayed through the names in the statement, the statement in false. (taken from Wikipedia)
It is impressive that one hundred years ago a philosopher cast into language, what we computer scientists today broadly refer to as the “semantic web” or the “Internet of Things”.

Notes on the presented pictures:
The presented pictures are chosen black and white copies of works of the painter Renato Ricci
(Ancona, I, 1922 – 1995); they belong to a private collection. The works of Renato Ricci came into existence in the period between 1970 and 1990. They “find their location in modern and contemporary art through their use of a modular conceptualisation. Realised with felt-tip pens, they develop a continuum, i.e. a methodic and iterative harmonization through a process of schematic rhythmics of signs and colors – originating an extended shape with a closed play of mutual lighting effects, which transform into a legitimated and competent organic system. (translated from a recommendation section of the art catalog “Bolaffi” 16–1981.)

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