ABSTRACT

The keynote for this portion of the text (which I have taken up slightly out of order) is given by the claim that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world” (5.6). A problematic feature of this discussion is the sudden appearance of the personal pronoun “my.” Exactly how personal this pronoun is is itself unclear.

5.62 The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.