Quotes About Language

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know

Tem de admitir-se que é verdade que saber qualquer coisa não implica pensar nisso - mas alguém que saiba de alguma coisa não tem de ser capaz de duvidar dela? E duvidar significa pensar.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A

We here touch one instance of Wittgenstein's fundamental thesis, that it is impossible to say anything about the world as a whole, and that whatever can be said has to be about bounded portions of the world.

There is not a single philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, different therapies, as it were.

I conceive the proposition—like Frege and Russell—as a function of the expressions contained in it.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Gränserna för mitt språk innebär gränserna för min värld.

ÖÄŸretmek istediÄŸim ÅŸey ÅŸu: Örtük bir saçmal?ktan aç?k bir saçmal??a geçmek.

In order to avoid these errors, we must employ a symbolism which excludes them, by not applying the same sign in different symbols and by not applying signs in the same way which signify in different ways. A symbolism, that is to say, which obeys the rules of logical grammar—of logical syntax. (The logical symbolism of Frege and Russell is such a language, which, however, does still not exclude all errors.)

the tendency of all men who ever tried to write or talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless.

If a sign is not necessary then it is meaningless. That is the meaning of Occam's razor. (If everything in the symbolism works as though a sign had meaning, then it has meaning.)

Vi känner att även när alla möjliga vetenskapliga frågor har besvarats, så har våra livsproblem inte ens blivit berörda. Då återstår förstås inte heller någon fråga - och just det är svaret.

The form is the possibility of the structure.

The proposition constructs a world with the help of a logical scaffolding, and therefore one can actually see in the proposition all the logical features possessed by reality if it is true. One can draw conclusions from a false proposition

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

The thought is the significant proposition

Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that "0" is part of the symbolism of Arithmetic.

It is easy to imagine a language consisting only of orders and reports in battle.--Or a language consisting only of questions and expressions for answering yes and no. And innumerable others.--And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.

to be considered an important event in the philosophical world.

The logical forms are anumerical. Therefore there are in logic no pre-eminent numbers, and therefore there is no philosophical monism or dualism, etc.