Pictures and artifacts

To the extent that the problem you are working on can be represented clearly in pictures, that problem is a real-world problem. To the extent that the problem you are working on can only be represented clearly in words, that problem is a linguistic problem. I have been thinking recently about ways to represent some of the problems in philosophy in pictures. I have not made much progress. While this may simply point to the need for further attention, it may also point to that position which Wittgenstein described so clearly and with which I strongly agree: that the problems of philosophy are above all artifacts solely of language and of thought. Many of these problems do not have solutions in the way that problems concerning the natural world do, and in fact many probably do not have solutions at all.