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“The point of the book [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus] is ethical … my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one. For . . .

“The point of the book [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus] is ethical … my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one. For the Ethical is delimited from within, as it were, by my book; and I’m convinced that, strictly speaking, it can ONLY be delimited in this way.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Letter to Ludwig von Ficker (November 1919)”

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