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Odd that this sentence: > Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. did not get a citation. Perhaps its so well known among its target audience th
by olooney 8y ago
Odd that this sentence:
> Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
did not get a citation. Perhaps its so well known among its target audience that none was considered necessary. Since HN appeals to a broader audience, I'll supply the missing citation: It's from Wittgenstein's Tractatus - the very last line in fact. The usage is apt - as far as I can tell, Wittgenstein was making the same point about the difficult - even impossibility - of making meaningful statements outside of a formal language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus#Proposition_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus...
- ykonstant 8y ago"Never mind, I was a pretentious doofus." -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
- Quekid5 8y agoRe: making meaningful statements outside of a formal language. Well, yes I guess that makes sense if we're talking "meaningful" in a formal sense... but then we're again stuck with the definition of what "meaningful" is. If I don't agree with your definition of "meaningful", then why would I listen to "your" philosophy? (EDIT: This is not meant to be personally confrontational, just a blunt statement of the essential problem.)