Limits to Language
Reflections on Wittgenstein's Tractatus #3
That the world is my world, shows itself in the fact that the limits of the language (the language which only I understand) mean the limits of my world. (5.6)
5.6 says that the limits of one’s language are the limits of one’s world. While Wittgenstein makes this remark with regard to the insights of solipsism, I would lik…
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