Tractatus Blogico-Philosophicus

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7 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. And this tautology is what is so hard for the philosopher to accept. The goal of t...

6.54 My propositions elucidate by whoever understands me perceiving them in the end as nonsensical, when through them – upon them – over the...

6.53 The right method for philosophy would properly be this: To say nothing other than what can be said, thus propositions of natural scienc...

6.522 There is to be sure the unspeakable [unutterable, ineffable]. This shows itself, it is the mystical. Black (p. 376) offers “th...

6.521 The solution of the problem of life is perceived in the vanishing of this problem. (Is not this the reason why people ...

6.52 We feel that even if all possible questions of natural science were to be answered, our life problems [existential problems?] would st...

6.51 Skepticism is not irrefutable, but rather manifestly nonsensical [ offenbar unsinnig ], if it would doubt where nothing can be asked. ...

6.5 If it requires an answer that one cannot articulate, then one also cannot articulate the question. The riddle does not exi...

6.45 The contemplation of the world sub specie aeterni is its contemplation as a – limited – whole. The feeling of the world a...

6.44 The mystical is not how the world is, but rather that it is. And this is beyond language, haven’t we seen above? Indeed, isn’t...

6.4321 The facts all belong only to the assignment, not to the correct response to it. If we see life in these terms, that is. “Corre...

6.432 How the world is, is completely indifferent for what is Higher. God does not disclose [or: manifest, reveal] himself in the world....

6.4312 The temporal immortality of the soul of man, meaning therefore its eternal survival even after death, is not only in no way guarantee...

6.4311 Death is not an event in life. One does not live through death. If one understands eternity not as an endless period ...

6.431 As too at death the world does not change, but rather stops. Why say “the world” here instead of “my world”?

6.43 If good or evil willing alters the world, then it can only alter the limits of the world, not the facts; not that which can be expresse...

6.423 Of the will as the bearer of the ethical, nothing can be said. And the will as a phenomenon is interesting only to psych...

6.422 The first thought at the setting up of an ethical law of the form “thou shalt….” is: And what then, if I don’t do it? It is clear, h...

6.421 It is clear that ethics cannot be articulated. Ethics is transcendental. (Ethics and aesthetics are one.) ...

6.42 Hence there can also be no propositions of ethics. Propositions can express nothing Higher. Mustn't "Higher" here ...

6.41 The sense of the world must lie outside of it. In the world everything is as it is and happens as it happens; there is no value in i...

6.4 All propositions are of equal value. Literally: All propositions are equivalent. But presumably he doesn’t mean that. Black (p....

6.3751 It is impossible, that is, logically impossible, for, e.g., two colors to be at the same point in the field of vision, since this is ...

6.375 As there is only a logical necessity, so there is also only a logical impossibility. Fair enough.

6.374 Even if all that we wished happened, then this would still only, so to speak, be a gift of fate, since there is no logical connection...

6.373 The world is independent of my will. Schopenhauer on the will: “My philosophy … is the only one that grants to morality its comp...

6.372 Thus they stop at laws of nature as at something sacrosanct, as the ancients stopped at God or fate. And indeed they are...

6.371 At the root of the whole modern worldview [ Weltanschauung ] lies the mistaken view [or: illusion] that the so-called laws of nature a...

6.37 There is no force such as to necessitate one thing’s happening on the strength of another thing’s having happened. There is only a lo...

6.36311 That the sun will rise tomorrow is an hypothesis; and that means: we do not know whether it will rise. Cf. Wittgenstein’s late...

6.3631 This process though has no logical, but only a psychological grounding. It is clear that there exists no ground for bel...

6.363 The process of induction consists in our assuming the simplest law that can be brought into unison with our experiences. OK. B...

6.362 What can be described can also take place, and what is supposed to be excluded by the law of causality cannot even be described. ...

6.36111 The Kantian problem of the right and left hand, that one cannot make cover each other, exists already in a plane, indeed in one-dime...

6.3611 We cannot compare any process with the “passage of time” – there is no such thing – but rather only with another process (perhaps wit...

6.361 In Hertz’s way of speaking, one could say: Only regular [law-like, lawful] combinations [connections] are thinkable . This net r...

6.36 If there were a law of causality, then it could read: “There are laws of nature.” But of course one cannot say that: it s...

6.35 Although the spots in our picture are geometrical figures, geometry can still obviously say absolutely nothing about their actual form ...

6.3432 We must not forget that the description of the world with mechanics is always completely general. In it there is never, e.g., talk ...

6.3431 Through the whole logical apparatus, throughout the physical laws still speak of the objects of the world. Huh? Maybe I should...

6.343 Mechanics is an attempt to construct according to one plan all true propositions that we need for a description of the world. OK...

6.342 And now we see the relative position of logic and mechanics. (One could also have a net consisting of different kinds of shapes, suc...

6.341 Newtonian mechanics, e.g., brings the description of the world to a unified form. Let us think of a white surface with irregular bla...

6.34 All these propositions, like the principle of sufficient reason, of continuity in nature, of least expenditure in nature, etc. etc., al...

6.33 We do not believe a priori in a law of conservation, but rather we know a priori the possibility of a logical form. Black (p. 346)...