Self-Assessment Question and Possible Answer

1. The internal relation between the proposition and the situation can be shown but cannot be stated. Briefly explain the Wittgenstein’s stance.
   
   Ans.: Holding the distinction between ‘showing’ and ‘stating’ Wittgenstein explains that stating consists in ‘referring’ and ‘describing’, and they are not found in the case of internal relation between the proposition and the situation that it describes, whereas showing consists in ‘representing’ and ‘arranging’, and this expounds the internal relation between the proposition and the situation that it describes. Further, in the case of ‘showing’ both representing and arranging occurs simultaneously whereas in case of ‘stating’, describing follows from referring and vice versa. From this, it is asserted that the internal relation between a proposition and the situation that it describes can be shown only, but cannot be stated.