# 4.115 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

This proposition asserts that the method of philosophy is to delimit the sayable, thereby indicating the unsayable by showing what can be said clearly.

## Themes in this chapter

### Limits of Language and Thought

The proposition directly addresses the boundary between what can be said and what can only be shown.

### Nonsense and Meaning

By clearly displaying the speakable, the unspeakable is indicated, highlighting the distinction between meaningful propositions and nonsense.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the Tractatus, presenting the method of philosophy as a delimitation of language.

## Key lines

> It will mean the unspeakable by clearly displaying the speakable.

Philosophy points to what cannot be put into words by rigorously clarifying what can be expressed.

_This encapsulates the Tractatus's view that the unsayable is shown through the clear articulation of the sayable._

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