ABSTRACT
Does ‘the book’ draw a limit, where none has existed before, or does it rather reveal a pre-existing closure, an invincible finality? Wittgenstein declares that the book aims at actively drawing the limit; yet he also says that as a result we reach unassailable and definitive truths. What is the status of this drawing, then? The draughtsman drawing the limit in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus aims at the ultimate sketch of traditional and modern Western philosophy – of Philosophy, by and large. He is an acute draughtsman, and, as he looks thoroughly at the object in front of him – at Philosophy – he realises that its basic shape is formed by several sharp dichotomies, which he discerns and delineates. Concealed in these dichotomies is the boundary line – the limit to the expression of thoughts – that it is his main aim to draw.
