Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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Wittgenstein distinguishes the mystical not as a matter of how the world is constituted, but as the sheer fact that it exists at all.
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Wittgenstein distinguishes the mystical not as a matter of how the world is constituted, but as the sheer fact that it exists at all.
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- Ethics and the Mystical
The mystical is identified not with empirical facts but with the existence of the world itself, transcending factual description.
Characters to notice
- Mr. Wittgenstein
Author of the proposition distinguishing the mystical from factual description.
Key passages
“Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is.”
The mystical does not concern the particular arrangement of facts in the world, but rather the sheer fact that there is a world at all.
Wittgenstein shifts focus from empirical content to the wonder of existence itself.
