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Wittgenstein's Early Life and Shift to Philosophy
- Wittgenstein grew up in a wealthy, highly cultured Viennese family surrounded by leading cultural figures.
- He shifted from engineering in Manchester to philosophy by directly approaching Bertrand Russell at Cambridge.
Logic as Boundary of Language
- Wittgenstein saw logic not as describing the world but as setting its boundaries of what can intelligibly be said.
- Language describes all possible states of affairs, so logic sets the limits of language and reality.
Whereof One Cannot Speak
- Wittgenstein’s final proposition urges silence about what cannot be clearly expressed.
- He believed many philosophical confusions arise from trying to say what can only be shown.