Les limites du langage ou la critique du langage comme thérapie dans la philosophie de Ludwig Wittgenstein
I propose to analyze the question of the limits of language. My intent is to examine the place and role of what is account to be unsayable in Wittgenstein's philosophy. This notion presupposes a criterion to grasp the limits of language. In the Tractatus, the criterion is given by the logical structure of the proposition. However, after he rejects this agreement of the logical form between language and reality, suggested by the pictorial theory, what’s taken to be unsayable does not seem to show up in the later writings after the Tractatus. At least with the notion of “language games”, the criterion to grasp the limits of language is no longer as clearly defined and the rules that determine the legitimate uses of language are not as strict. Finally, designing meaning as "use", the nature of language is seen as the result of a form of life, and from a pragmatic perspective, but under a minimalist position, a deflationary conception of truth can be established, avoiding the reification of superlative facts associated with the reality of what is unsayable. Therefore, the ineffable truth would no longer be associated with a mystical attitude toward reality, and Wittgenstein’s quietism, inspired by the therapeutic nihilism, remains the best avenue to neutralize the metaphysical discourse.
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