The Limits of the Sayable
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Key ideas in The Limits of the Sayable
- Logical form and state of affairs
- Value judgments and spatial arrangement
- Truth, falsehood, and mapping
- Transcendental subjects as conditions
- Logic vs Ethics (How vs That)
- The mystical and the limited whole
- The logical limits of the Picture Theory when applied to non-factual propositions
- The transcendental nature of ethics and aesthetics
- The Tractatus consists of propositions it declares to be nonsensical
- Language can state facts but cannot state logic
- Logic is a self-canceling tool
- The distinction between 'saying' and 'showing'
- Logical form mirrors itself in language; it is shown, never described
- Final stage is a shift in perspective
- The progression of the 'Ladder' metaphor
- The logical limits of the Picture Theory
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The Limits of the Sayable the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Why would the author of the Tractatus argue that saying 'This painting is beautiful' lacks logical sense?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where The Limits of the Sayable takes you
Explore the boundaries where language and logic break down. This course examines how the greatest thinkers found meaning in the 'unsayable' and the 'unprovable.'
- 1
The Boundary of Logic
- The Silence of the Tractatus
- Language Games and Social Meaning
- 2
The Breakdown of Systems
- Deconstruction and the Trace
- Incompleteness and the Unprovable
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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