/sci/ - Science & Math

You are close to the opening of the Tractatus: "The world is everything that is the case", and that all language is a representation of objects that exist in the world. The most common view is that language can only represent an exogenous truth or Platonic form outside language.

You need to read late Wittgenstein: The Blue and Brown books, Philosophical Investigations, and On Certainty. In his late work he argues that truth is found within language itself, language is truth and not a representation.

Plato came close with Parmenides, but besides Wittgenstein, I can think of no philosopher that has written two works, devised two epic philosophical systems, that contradict each other so acutely. He was a genius.