world-picture

is (for example with 'the mechanistic world-picture', 'the physicist's world-picture) a scientific and theoretical view of the external world.

world-view and world-picture Weltanschauung is formed from Welt, 'world', and Anschauung, 'view, etc.', and means 'view of, outlook on, the world'. Weltbild is a 'picture [Bild] of the world'. They are not interchangeable. A Weltbild is usually associated with science or a science ('the mechanistic world-picture', 'the physicist's world-picture', etc.), while a Weltanschauung can be prescientific or scientific. A Weltbild is usually a theoretical view of the external world, while a Weltanschauung is essentially a 'view of life', a view of our position in the world and how we should act (cf. AWP, 86/133f.). (inwood 248)

is not a picture of the world, but the world conceived as picture.

But if we read it in the light of such expressions as 'being in the picture', 'putting oneself in the picture', 'getting the picture' which, like their German equivalents, imply a complete mastery of what the picture is a picture of we see that 'world-picture essentially means not a picture of the world, but the world conceived as picture. (inwood 'heidegger' : 249)

is only one constituent of a world-view. The latter consist of a structure of life-experience, world-picture, and arising from the relation of these, an ideal of life.

A Weltbild is only one constituent of a Weltanschauung. 'According to [Dilthey's] characterization we thus have three features in the structure of the Weltanschauung: life-experience, Weltbild, and, arising from the relation of these, an ideal of life' (XXVII, 236). (248)

is such that those who hold the same world picture (i.e. Scientific ideas). May hold different world-views, and in their conflicts, employ the weapons supplied by their common world-picture.

Adherents of the same Weltbild may hold different world-views, and enter into conflict, employing the weapons supplied by their common Weltbild (AWP, 87/134f.). (248)

is the world conceived as some kind of framed image over which we have total mastery.

world picture, n.Definitions

world picture