# 4.116 explained — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

## What happens

Wittgenstein asserts that anything which can be thought or said is inherently capable of being expressed clearly, emphasizing the limits of language and thought.

## Themes in this chapter

### Limits of Language and Thought

The proposition directly addresses the boundaries of what can be thought and said, asserting that within those bounds clarity is possible.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Wittgenstein

Author of the proposition, asserting the clarity of thinkable and sayable content.

## Key lines

> Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

Any idea that is thinkable is also thinkable in a clear manner; any statement that is utterable is also utterable in a clear manner.

_Wittgenstein emphasizes that obscurity arises only when we attempt to think or say what lies beyond the limits of language._

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