Words

1. We can all find something different in the TLP.
2. After all, it's style is mysterious, really.
3. It seems to negate itself, while yet claiming to have solved the more pressing problems of philosophy.
4. I'm not going to play the professional here.
5. A person must simply read it.
6. My comments are just an informal perspective.
7. I feel that it tells us that whatever we know, it doesn't really explain anything.
8. Our language is a system of relationships. But within what that cannot itself be said, do these relationships exist?
9. My informal interpretation of "the real is rational" is directly connected to the "limits of my language are the limits of my world."
10. What this is all about, in my opinion, is that it's trying to make us aware of certain dualities that we take for granted.
11. We say we are talking about the world, but our words refer to other words. And this "world" is a word.
12. We talk about the transcendence of thought, but this transcendence is itself a thought.
13. We talk about the world beyond our human minds, but this talk is within our human mind.
14. But what or where is this human mind we talk of?
15. We draw the line between the world and the mind with language.
16. But we can always talk and think in a different way.
17. For practical reasons, we think of the self as if contained in a body.
18. And yet our experience of life is the experience not only of our bodies, but of a world.
19. And within this world we experience other human beings who also use our language.
20. And this language allows us to be in one another's head, even if imperfectly.
21. Because the law protects our bodies and our property, we tend to think of the self as body and property. This is much easier as far as the paperwork goes.
22. We think of the world as it was before we were born. But we can only think this way after we are born.
23. We think of the world as it will be when we are dead, but we can only think this way when we are not yet dead.
24. Any version of God that fits snugly within our language is just not big enough.
25. We make and break words all the time.
26. None of our sentences are essential.
27. None of our distinctions are logically necessary.