“ Empirical reality is limited by the totality of objects. ”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). copy citation
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
|---|---|
| Source | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| Topic | reality limit |
| Date | 1921 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by C. K. Ogden |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5740/5740-pdf.pdf |
Context
“but I must have to deal with that which makes it possible for me to invent them.
5.556 OGD [→GER | →P/M]
There cannot be a hierarchy of the forms of the elementary propositions. Only that which we ourselves construct can we foresee.
5.5561 OGD [→GER | →P/M]
Empirical reality is limited by the totality of objects. The boundary appears again in the totality of elementary propositions.
The hierarchies are and must be independent of reality.
5.5562 OGD [→GER | →P/M]
If we know on purely logical grounds, that there must be elementary propositions, then this must be known by everyone who understands propositions in their unanalysed form.”
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