Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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This proposition asserts a connection between describability and possibility: anything that can be described can also occur, and anything that is excluded by the law of causality cannot be described.
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This proposition asserts a connection between describability and possibility: anything that can be described can also occur, and anything that is excluded by the law of causality cannot be described.
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- Limits of Language and Thought
The proposition explores the boundary of what can be meaningfully described, linking it to the causal structure of reality.
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“What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the law of causality cannot be described.”
Anything that can be put into words is possible in reality, and anything that violates causal laws is beyond the reach of description.
This connects the limits of language to the constraints of causality.
