Philosophy · Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Philosophy
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world is everything that is the case, language pictures facts by sharing their logical form, and whatever cannot be pictured this way — ethics, aesthetics, the meaning of life — must be passed over in silence.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyLudwig Wittgenstein
Argues against his own earlier picture theory of language that meaning is not a private mental correspondence but a matter of how a word is used within a public, rule-governed practice.