The mystical «Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Le Regard Libre N° 24 - Léa Farine

Ludwig Wittgenstein writes in the foreword to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: «The whole meaning of the book could be summed up as follows: everything that can properly be said, can be said clearly, and about what cannot be said, silence must be kept. The book will thus draw a boundary to the act of thinking - or rather, not to the act of thinking, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to draw a boundary to the act of thinking, we would have to be able to think on both sides of this boundary (we would therefore have to be able to think what cannot be thought). The boundary can therefore only be drawn in language, and what lies beyond this boundary is simply meaningless.

I believe that beneath the apparent complexity of the Tractatus lies a descriptive purpose that is not only simple, but also hard to refute.