picture theory of language

a theory of early Wittgenstein (as written about in the Tractatus.)  The theory says that all objects are either simple (without parts) or made up of simples.  Language represents the relationship of these simples to each other as a kind of picture, and the atoms of the picture correspond to elements in the world that are pictured.  (See the Investigations.) Click here here to look into the relationship between the picture theory of language and artificial intelligence research.