My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way : anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them — as steps to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed... Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason - Page 152by Gunnar Olsson - 2010 - 584 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| CHRISTOPHER MORLEY - 1923 - 196 pages
...understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up on it. He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak,... | |
| Christopher Morley - Poetry - 1923 - 182 pages
...understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up on it. He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak,... | |
| Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - English language - 1928 - 252 pages
...understands me finally recognises them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions ; then he sees the world rightly. 7 Whereof one cannot... | |
| A. Biletzki - Education - 2003 - 276 pages
...understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. (TLP 6.54) Whereof one... | |
| Bennington Books, Geoffrey Bennington - Philosophy - 2003 - 500 pages
...understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. But this 'seeing the world... | |
| Wolfgang Schirmacher - Philosophy - 2003 - 308 pages
...understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. 7 Whereof one cannot speak,... | |
| Daniel Harry Cohen - Philosophy - 2004 - 252 pages
...duck-rabbits and the seeing-as phenomenon, he provides us with an exemplary case at the end of the Tractatus: My propositions serve as elucidations in the following...speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)16 He has asked us to look at what he has written in a different way, to see it as something else.... | |
| Jolita Pons - Philosophy - 2004 - 250 pages
...Wittgenstein's claim in the penultimate section of the Tractatus: "My prepositions are elucidatory in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually...throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it)" (6.45) . One could understand non-sense as an expression of a negativity of production that does not... | |
| Duncan Richter - Philosophy - 2004 - 276 pages
...and perhaps also Arthur Schopenhauer. At the end of the book (proposition 6.54) Wittgenstein says: "My propositions serve as elucidations in the following...understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical." What to make of the Tractatus, its author, and the propositions it contains is no easy matter. The... | |
| Duncan Richter - Philosophy - 2004 - 209 pages
...acknowledges the influence of Frcge and Russell in the preface. At the end of the book Wittgenstein says, 'My propositions serve as elucidations in the following...anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical.'4 It is no easy matter to know what to make of Wittgenstein as author of the Tractatus... | |
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