Logical Silence: The Things of Which Language Cannot Speak

On Wittgenstein's Concept of Silence and the Limits of Language

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“Words can’t express how much I love you.”

The idea that there is a limit to what language can express is nothing new. From pop songs to greeting cards, we often express our deepest emotions by saying how language falls short of describing how we feel. In philosophy, it is the same. While many philosophers have argued …