And, as Wittgenstein says at 4.1212, "what can be shown, cannot be said." Any attempt to say something of the form "x is a concept" is an attempt to say ...

This digital edition is based on Project Gutenberg's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by Ludwig Wittgenstein, which was produced by Jana Srna, Norbert H.

Wittgenstein's showing doctrine pre- sents a dichotomy within language between what can be said and what can only be shown (4.1212). Seen from the viewpoint of ...

Dec 13, 2021 · Mr Wittgenstein maintains that everything properly philosophical belongs to what can only be shown, to what is in common between a fact and its ...

If two propositions contradict one another, then their structure shows it; the same is true if one of them follows from the other. And so on. What can be shown, ...

Thus, when Wittgenstein claims that what can be shown cannot be said (4.1212), he does not mean a proposition or picture cannot be used to say something ...

Wittgenstein calls Sachverhalte, whereas a fact which may consist of two or more facts is a Tatsache: thus, for example “Socrates is wise” is a Sachverhalt, as ...

If two propositions contradict one another, this is shown by their structure; similarly if one follows from another, etc. 4.1212 What can be shown cannot be ...

4.1212 What can be shown, cannot be said. 4.1213 Now, too, we understand our feeling that once we have a sign- language in which everything is all right, we ...

Wittgenstein calls Sachverhalte, whereas a fact which may consist of two or more facts is a Tat- sache: thus, for example “Socrates is wise” is a Sachverhalt, ...