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 In analysing ''Bedeutung,'' you come upon ''Sinn'' as follows: We want to explain the relation of propositions  to reality.
-The  relation is as follows: Its ''simples'' have meaning =  are names of simples; and its relations have a quite different relation to relations; and these two facts already establish a sort of correspondence between proposition which contains these and only these, and reality: i.e. if all the simples of a proposition are known, we already know that we CAN  describe  reality by saying  that  it  ''behaves''<ref>Presumably "verhält sich zu", i.e. "is related." [''Edd''.]</ref> in  a certain  way  to the whole proposition.
+The  relation is as follows: Its ''simples'' have meaning =  are names of simples; and its relations have a quite different relation to relations; and these two facts already establish a sort of correspondence between proposition which contains these and only these, and reality: i.e. if all the simples of a proposition are known, we already know that we CAN  describe  reality by saying  that  it  ''behaves''<ref>Presumably "verhält sich zu", i.e. "is related." [''Edd''.]</ref> in  a certain  way  to the whole proposition. (This amounts to saying that we can ''compare'' reality with the proposition. In the case of two lines we can ''compare'' them in respect of their length without any convention: the comarison is automatic. But in our case the possibility of comparison depends upon the conventions by  which we  have  given meanings  to  our simples (names and relations).)
+It only remains to fix the method of comparison by saying ''what'' about our simples is to ''say'' what about reality. E.g., suppose we take two lines  of unequal length: and say that the fact that the shorter  is of the length it is is to mean that the longer is of the length ''it'' is. We should then have established a convention as to the meaning of the shorter, of the sort we are now to give.
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