Wittgenstein's Ladder -- few Notes + Quotes
Because it's there --
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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This is wonderful book. Its philosophy of pure logic in a way offbuild from Kant.
Incorporating some symbolic usages adopted from math and set theory as a part of its ground.
But its also sleek, sensitive, funny and — phrase driven, I mean short swift sentences and paras — keep in mind, as within this world.
I enjoined with it as a wanderer. Read it 3 times. A number of very famous statements about knowledge and language come out of this book.
BUT BUT he is a pure philo head in the book. No breaks….
MOST FAMOUS Quote
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Quote from which Wittgensteins Ladder comes from
My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them.
(He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)
I think of him there as somewhat pulling a Flaubert. In that it is kind of cheeky. Ya know.
It is said that its, en fin, in responsivo to a “metaphor’ Kirkeguard makes in his “Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments” —
Another favorite quote — about mystical feeling —
Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is.
6.45 The contemplation of the world subspecie aeterni is its contemplation as a limited whole. The feeling of the world as a limited whole is the mystical feeling.
He lets in meta — in lang — as something that simply exists because its there.
"Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is."
Immediately called to mind
I Am Who Am.
I've always preferred this grammatical formulation, without the extra i. more Wittgenstein, less Popeye. Although it must be said the limits of one's knowledge of Hebrew are the limits of one's world in this instance.
This is great. I have a copy of Wittgenstein's Major Works, which doesn't have Philosophical Investigations, unfortunately, only the Blue and Brown Book, Tractatus, and his studies for Philosophical Investigations. I've had this book for over a year and have maybe read a third. I don't have the brain power. I have to reread every paragraph a dozen times. His work makes your head want to explode, in a good way, though.