At the Limits of What Can Be Said: The Philosophy Established and Destroyed by the Tractatus
In this article, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is examined as both the founding and critical threshold of the tradition of analytical philosophy, with the aim of elucidating not only its definitional ambiguities but also its internal tensions. While the linguistic analysis, logical priority, anti-psychologism, and metaphysical opposition that characterize analytical philosophy are discussed in their historical and conceptual diversity, the Tractatus is shown to be the most rigid formulation of these tendencies. However, this rigidity is also the basis for dissolution: Wittgenstein's language, which confines meaning solely to the factual realm, limits philosophy to silence. Thus, while the Tractatus crystallizes the analytic tradition within the precise boundaries of language, it simultaneously condemns it to its own silence. In this sense, the text represents not merely a beginning but a radical critique that undermines the very foundations of analytic philosophy.
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