:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Monday, June 03, 2002 ::

So much he says confuses me, but I still see something in him that fascinates me as much as Nietzsche

5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

5.61 Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also its limits.So we cannot say in logic, 'The world has this in it, and this, but not that.' For that would appear to presuppose that we were excluding certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case, since it would require that logic should go beyond the limits of the world; for only in that way could it view those limits from the other side as well. We cannot think what we cannot think; so what we cannot think we cannot say either.

5.62 This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.

5.63 I am my world. (The microcosm.)

--Ludwig Wittgenstein "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"

:: Jim Nichols 6/03/2002 02:58:00 AM [+] ::
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