The Limits of Language

In Dayton Z. Phillips & Peter G. Winch (eds.), Wittgenstein. Blackwell. pp. 39–56 (1989)
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This chapter contains sections titled: How to Read the Tractatus Recognizing Metaphysics as Senseless Logic as Mirror of the World The Self, the Subject, the I Ethics.

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limits of language, the Tractatus ‐ “draw a limit to thinking, …., but to expression of thoughts”   Wittgenstein, that problems ‐ cannot be properly posed, given limits of language   Bertrand Russell, on how to read the Tractatus ‐ “What causes hesitation is the fact that, …a good deal about what cannot be said”   interpreters, mistaken in assuming ‐ that Tractatus, is a single, coherent “system” of thought   Wittgenstein's thoughts, reflections on God and the world ‐ happiness, sin, ethics, aesthetics, meaning of life   Wittgenstein's concern with pseudo‐concepts ‐ and Frege's distinction of concepts and objects   Wittgenstein, in reality only reformulating ‐ and radicalizing ideas   Wittgenstein, in abandoning the idea of metaphysics ‐ as derived from logic   Wittgenstein's attitude toward metaphysics ‐ remaining uniformly hostile   recognizing, “the will as a phenomenon is only of interest to psychology” ‐ Wittgenstein's ethics

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10.1002/9781444343311.ch3

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