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2.151

The form of representation is the pissibility that the things are combined with one another as are the elements of the picture.

2.1511

Thus the picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it.

2.1512

It is like a scale applied to reality.

2.1513

According to this view the representing relation which makes it a picture, also belongs to the picture.

2.1514

The representing releation consists of the co-ordinations of the elements of the picture and the things.

2.1515

These co-ordinations are as it were the feelers of its elements with which the picture touches reality.