ABSTRACT
Wittgenstein's aim in the Tractatuswas to draw the limits of what can be thought and expressed. This chapter moves away from exposition of the Tractatus and looks into what we might call the very idea of a saying/showing distinction. The Tractatus will continue to be a touch-stone. The Tractatus itself did not contain a great deal that directly pertained to the mathematically infinite. The metaphysically infinite, on the other hand, was at the very core of the book; and it was directly related to L. Wittgenstein's saying/showing distinction. Reconsider the centrality of the idea of the world as a limited whole. The chapter explores that the idea of an infinite framework shows to those capable of seeing and describing the finite elements within it, an idea that is obviously extracted from what we have just been considering.
