Beyond the limits
This week's entry under The Writer's Post has given me some thoughts and I felt a bit lost since I did not get any inspiration at all. And then I asked my husband what he would suggest and he started to tell me about Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his Tractus Logico-Philosophicus.
Below his main 7 chapters:
The world is everything that is the case.
What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.
The logical picture of the facts is the thought.
The thought is the significant proposition.
Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions.
(An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.)
The general form of truth-function is: [, , N()]. This is the general form of proposition.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
In his own words, here is the description of his own work:
"The main point is the theory of what can be expressed (gesagt) by propositions —i.e. by language (and, which comes to the same thing, what can be thought) and what can not be expressed by propositions, but only shown (gezeigt); which, I believe, is the cardinal problem of philosophy."
— Wittgenstein, letter to Russell, 19 August 1919
His search? To look beyond the limits of language!
A different approach, a different type of post, I hope I made you curious about his work, it is rather fascinating!
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