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> It looks like Wittgenstein eventually points out the problems with the Tractatus in his later works like "The Philosophical Investigations" Yes, he came to t
by Veen 6y ago
> It looks like Wittgenstein eventually points out the problems with the Tractatus in his later works like "The Philosophical Investigations"
Yes, he came to the same conclusion you did, that what he attemtped in the Tractatus was misguided at best and impossible at worst.
- kbd 6y agoIIRC doesn’t the Tractatus itself famously end with a kind of acknowledgment of its own failure? “Whereof one can’t speak, thereof one must be silent?”
- Viliam1234 6y ago> what he attemtped in the Tractatus was misguided at best and impossible at worst But it remains his most famous and most quoted (well, that one sentence specifically) book.