Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein)

The "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus," written by Ludwig Wittgenstein, is a philosophical work that explores the relationship between language, reality, and thought. Wittgenstein asserts that the world consists of facts, not things, and that language serves as a picture of these facts. He argues that meaningful statements must correspond to reality and that philosophical problems often arise from misunderstandings of language. The book famously culminates in the idea that whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent, suggesting that some aspects of human experience cannot be captured by language.