Disambiguation evidence for Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. via surface form

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"


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addresses boundary of sense and nonsense
addresses relation between language and reality
addresses what can be meaningfully said
associatedWith linguistic turn
associatedWith logical positivism
author Ludwig Wittgenstein
centralTheme limits of language
centralTheme meaningful discourse
centralTheme showing versus saying
centralTheme unsayable
connectedTo Wittgenstein’s early philosophy
connectedTo Wittgenstein’s view of ethics as unsayable
connectedTo Wittgenstein’s view of the mystical as what can only be shown
field logic
field metaphilosophy
field philosophy of language
firstPublishedIn Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
surface form: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (English edition 1922)
firstPublishedIn Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
surface form: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (German edition 1921)
genre philosophical maxim
hasForm conditional statement
hasInfluenced 20th-century analytic philosophy
hasInfluenced logical positivism
surface form: logical empiricism
hasInfluenced philosophical quietism
hasSubjectMatter criteria of sense
hasSubjectMatter role of philosophy
hasSubjectMatter scope of meaningful language
implies metaphysical, ethical, and mystical matters cannot be put into meaningful propositions
implies philosophy should clarify language rather than state metaphysical theses
implies some things lie beyond the limits of meaningful language
instanceOf aphorism
instanceOf philosophical proposition
instanceOf quotation
language English
notableFor being one of the most famous lines in 20th-century philosophy
oftenInterpretedAs boundary statement for meaningful scientific discourse
oftenInterpretedAs call for silence about metaphysics
originalForm Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen
originalLanguage German
partOfWork Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
positionInWork Proposition 7
publicationYear 1921
relatedConcept ineffable
relatedConcept limits of thought
relatedConcept logical form
relatedConcept meaningful proposition
relatedConcept picture theory of language
workContext concluding proposition of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus