What 'ethics' in the tractatus is not

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If someone believes himself to have discovered the solution to the problem of life … then in order to refute himself he need only reflect that there was a time when this ‘solution’ had not been discovered; but it must have been possible to live then too…. And that is the position in which we find ourselves in logic. If there comes to seem to be a ‘solution’ to logical (philosophical) problems, we should need only to caution ourselves that there was a time when they had not been solved (and even at that time people must have been able to live and think).

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James Ferguson Conant
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The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language.Rudolf Carnap - 1959 - In A. J. Ayer (ed.), Logical Positivism. New York: The Free Press. pp. 60-81.
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