Light from the Dark

Reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Basic argument is one of a semantical nature, that post-modernists and decontructivists pull out on us truth-seekers.

He argued: A logically "ideal" language cannot supply meaning, it can only reflect the world, and so, sentences in a logical language cannot remain meaningful if they are not merely reflections of the facts.

Ethics is also transcendental, and thus we cannot examine it with language, as it is a form of aesthetics and cannot be expressed.

This suggests that many of the traditional domains of philosophy, e.g. ethics and metaphysics, cannot in fact be discussed meaningfully.

** Strangely by even thinking about the pointlessness of philosophy, he has demonstrated the "anxiety" that eats away at all man, that I argue. He worried that philosophy was but a sham. Something that did not get anyone closer to the truth. Thus we can see that he would not have labored his mental processes if he had not spared the truth a thought.



Wittgenstein does not put forward a rival theory on the matters under discussion in the book, but only makes us aware of the logic of our language as we use it.

** yet again this supports my argument. The beauty of philosophy and the seeking of the truth is that it is not meant to reach an end-point. The "fleeting anxiety" is what improves and advances us as a rational species. As Tian Yan put in his own words,

"People think they have found the Real Truth and then stop there. What they
actually found was the Truth that prevents them from experiencing the Real Truth,
as you mention. What you want to do, is humble yourself and realize that there will
be more truths reaching towards the Real Truth, and every time you made the discovery, it is just Truth. If you choose to just settle with Truth, there is no experiencing Real Truth."

Thus by realising the logic of our language, we become more mindful of the representations of the real truth that our language is able to offer us. Then we set to ponder more about it......and we get ever closer to the real truth