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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Form
Form Philosophy
Year
Year 1921
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 75

In seven numbered propositions a philosopher builds a crystal theory of how language pictures the world, then kicks the ladder away: what cannot be spoken of must be passed over in silence.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein

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