‎'It is self-evident that identity is not a relation between objects' (page 52). Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein was concerned with Symbolism as exemplified with Language. We use language with the intention to mean something with it. The relationship between thoughts, progressed into words and developed into sentences. Also the idea that the sentence is meant to present truth. What relationship does one sentence have to another sentence in order to symbolise something comprehensive? Wittgenstein is thus concerned with accurate symbolism.

I find the following statement really interesting/beautiful, taken from the introduction (by Bertrand Russell) of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 'the object of Philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity' (xii).

The book has a challanging preface, saying Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is not a text book but can only be understood by someone who has already had the same thoughts, or at very least, similar thoughts. The author is concerned with language, what can be summurised with our words can and therefore must be said clearly, but what cannot, must be left in silence (an idea that gives me butterflies in my stomach, for as a dancer I feel that there are some surreal things in life that cannot be expressed through words but can be conveyed in other mediums, such as dance).

Within the main body of the book Wittgenstein numbers each proposition and further comments with decimal points. For example '1. The world is all that is the case. 1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things' (page 5).

Have you noticed how words even with the exact same spelling or sound but different meanings cannot demonstrate their different roles without other words around them. For example when I say 'nails' you dont know if I am talking about finger nails or the nails I bang with a hammer unless I use the word 'nails' in the context of a sentence. Wittgenstein explains this on page six 2.0122.

On page ten pictures are discussed and how in order to establish whether a picture is true or false we must compare it to reality. To this I question, what about perception?