Status Updates From Notebooks, 1914–1916

art is gay. reviewing later

"Don't worry about what you have already written. Just keep on
beginning to think afresh as if nothing at all had happened yet."

this is just a small intermezzo from the surrounding mathematical logic and/or philosophy

When one is frightened of the truth (as I am now) then it is never
the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

"Don't let yourself get overwhelmed with questions, just take it easy."

The proposition only says something in so far as far as it is a picture!

Only in this way can the proposition be true or false: It can only agree or disagree with reality by being a picture of a situation

The proposition in picture-writing can be true and false. It has a sense independent of its truth or falsehood. It must be possible to demonstrate everything essential by considering this case.

If sign and thing signified were not identical in respect of their total logical content then there would have to be something still more fundamental than logic.

Is the only evidence here once more that extremely dubious "self-evidence"? Let's take a question quite like that one, which however is simpler and more fundamental, namely the following: Is a point in our visual field a simple object, a thing?

Once more: logic must take care of itself. A possible sign must also be capable of signifying. Everything that is possible at all, is also legitimate.

i'm in the wittgenstein notebooks. i'm in the i don't understand a word he's saying ever at any point in time. i'm in the combination wittgenstein's notebooks not understanding a wo-