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Jawad Shuaib says |
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| 2.0232 In a manner of speaking, objects are colourless. 2.0233 If two objects have the same logical form, the only distinction between them, apart from their external properties, is that they are different. 2.02331 Either a thing has properties that nothing else has, in which case we can immediately use a description to distinguish it from the others and refer to it; or, on the other hand, there are several things that have the whole set of their properties in common, in which case it is quite impossible to indicate one of them. For it there is nothing to distinguish a thing, I cannot distinguish it, since otherwise it would be distinguished after all. 2.024 The substance is what subsists independently of what is the case. --- haha, smart guy. Though, I am not sure what he meant by that quote you posted. I have heard it before, but was he speaking literally? |
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 Dunno myself (should've written 'wtf does that mean' instead of 'what do you say'). Perhaps that we cannot cross the limits of language during our philosophical adventures.This looks relevant: "The book deals with the problems of philosophy, and shows, I believe, that the reason why these problems are posed is that the logic of our language is misunderstood. The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence. Thus the aim of the book is to draw a limit to thought, or rather--not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be drawn, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Bertrand Russell |
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