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The Flight of Thought: Two Types of Thought in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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  • Shlomy Mualem
Shlomy Mualem
Universidad Panamericana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v26i1.262

Published 2013-11-28

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Mualem, S. (2013). The Flight of Thought: Two Types of Thought in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, 26(1), 133–151. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v26i1.262
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Abstract

The essay claims that in Wittgenstein's Tractatus there are two types of thought: 'Gedanke' and 'sub specie aeternitatis'. Gedanke, being a logical picture, corresponds to a possible state of affairs, and to facts in the world. It pertains to the interior scope of the limit of language, and to what can be said. Sub specie aeternitatis is a mode of thought that observes its objects 'from outside' and thus perceives each object as a limited-whole or as a world. It pertains to the exterior scope of the limit of language, and thus it is related to the sphere of transcendent values, denoting what can only be shown.

 

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