# 4.114 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

> Chapter companion for Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

## What happens

The proposition must set a boundary to thought by delineating the thinkable, thereby also marking the unthinkable from within.

## Themes in this chapter

### Limits of Language and Thought

The proposition functions to limit the thinkable and thus define the unthinkable.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition

## Key lines

> It should limit the thinkable and thereby the unthinkable. It should limit the unthinkable from within through the thinkable.

The proposition must draw a boundary around what can be thought, and in doing so, it also defines what cannot be thought, by approaching the unthinkable from the side of the thinkable.

_Clarifies the role of the proposition in demarcating the limits of thought._

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