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The World in Silence: Form, Logic, and the Limits of Meaning in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The World in Silence: Form, Logic, and the Limits of Meaning in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Paperback

PhilosophyLogic

ISBN13: 9798184035857
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 24 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the silence at the end of the Tractatus is not where philosophy stops - but what it was for all along?

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the most austere masterpiece of twentieth-century philosophy: seven propositions, a theory of language and logic, and a final command to remain silent about what cannot be said. For a hundred years, that ending has divided its readers. Was Wittgenstein gesturing at ineffable truths? Confessing the failure of his own book? Or doing something no one had quite seen?

The World in Silence: Form, Logic, and the Limits of Meaning in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus offers a bold and unifying answer. Across five chapters and a deep concluding synthesis, it defends a single thesis pursued with rare severity: the form of the world can only show itself - it can never be said - and the silence of the Tractatus is therefore a result, not a renunciation.

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