The limits of my world

Can you think without words?

Wittgenstein wrote that the limits of his language meant the limits of his world. Yet everyone has felt something they had no word for.

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ReadingLudwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (tr. C. K. Ogden), 1922The limits of my language5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. 5.61 …What we cannot think, that we cannot think: we cannot therefore say what we cannot think. 5.62 …In fact what solipsism means is quite correct, only it cannot be said, but it shows itself. 5.621 The world and life are one. 5.63 I am my world. (The microcosm.)

5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. 5.61 …What we cannot think, that we cannot think: we cannot therefore say what we cannot think. 5.62 …In fact what solipsism means is quite correct, only it cannot be said, but it shows itself. 5.621 The world and life are one. 5.63 I am my world. (The microcosm.)

ReadingLudwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (tr. C. K. Ogden), 1922Whereof one cannot speak6.52 We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. 6.521 The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem. 6.522 There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical. 7 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

6.52 We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. 6.521 The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem. 6.522 There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical. 7 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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