Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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page 36 of 101 (35%)
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4.1122 Darwin's theory has no more to do with philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science. 4.113 Philosophy sets limits to the much disputed sphere of natural science. 4.114 It must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits to what cannot be thought by working outwards through what can be thought. 4.115 It will signify what cannot be said, by presenting clearly what can be said. 4.116 Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be put into words can be put clearly. 4.12 Propositions can represent the whole of reality, but they cannot represent what they must have in common with reality in order to be able to represent it-- logical form. In order to be able to represent logical form, we should have to be able to station ourselves with propositions somewhere outside logic, that is to say outside the world. 4.121 Propositions cannot represent logical form: it is mirrored in them. What finds its reflection in language, language cannot represent. What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language. |
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