Ludwig Wittgenstein's early systematic work arguing that language pictures the logical structure of facts, and that what cannot be said — ethics, aesthetics, the mystical — must be passed over in silence.
The world is the totality of facts; elementary propositions picture atomic facts; logical form cannot be stated but only shown; the limits of language are the limits of my world; whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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