Disambiguation evidence for the limits of my language mean the limits of my world via surface form

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"


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appearsIn Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
associatedPhilosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
associatedWork Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
author Ludwig Wittgenstein
clarifiedBy Wittgenstein’s distinction between saying and showing
contextWithinTractatus part of the discussion of the general form of the proposition
hasEnglishTranslationVariant The limits of my language are the limits of my world
hasInfluenced 20th-century philosophy of language
hasInfluenced discussions of the limits of expression
hasInfluenced later debates on linguistic relativity
influencedBy Bertrand Russell
influencedBy Gottlob Frege
influencedBy logical atomism
instanceOf philosophical aphorism
instanceOf quotation
interpretation our capacity to think is bounded by the structure of our language
interpretation what cannot be expressed in language cannot be meaningfully thought
languageRoleInContext logical representation of possible facts
mainTheme limits of thought
mainTheme linguistic representation of the world
mainTheme relation between language and reality
notableFor succinct expression of early Wittgenstein’s view of language
oftenMisinterpretedAs claim that language completely determines reality
originalForm Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt
originalLanguage German
philosophicalField epistemology
philosophicalField philosophy of language
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
positionInWork Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
surface form: Tractatus proposition 5.6
quotationType aphoristic statement
relatedConcept ineffable
relatedConcept Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
surface form: linguistic relativism
relatedConcept logical form
relatedConcept picture theory of language
relatedConcept sayable and unsayable
relatedWork Philosophical Investigations
statusInPhilosophy widely cited Wittgenstein quotation
worldDefinitionInContext totality of facts, not of things
yearOfPublication 1921