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Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Grammar in Language

There's no such thing as a substantive term that's just an illegitimate use, he says. Wittgenstein makes the point that all we have is the contents of our experience. The eye is in the form of the thoughts, to say there's an eye, but these thoughts are disparate and unconnected within a certain domain. Subject does not belong to the world, but is a limit of the world, Kant writes.

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