Standard thought is this picture is the main object of criticism of PI
Gustafsson thinks this is making too much philosophy out of the Augustinian picture.
(in fact, Augstine himself doesn’t subscribe to the philosophical implications commonly attributed to the passage)
This simple picture is attractive and can be applied in good ways or bad ways.
Pictures for Wittgenstein operate on a primative level, can’t say they’re right or wrong.
Wittgenstein in Foundations of Mathematics: “We don’t judge the picture but we judge by means of the picture.”
They are prototheories / paradigms that are bad if cut from their useful applications.
e.g. Start looking for the correlate of the word red, postulate Platonic forms and get philosophical confusion
Cannot be argued against because counterexamples can be absorbed by a picture, which can be elaborated upon
The closer the picture is to a fully fleshed out theory, the harder (more artificial-seeming) this becomes.