Lexicon of Arguments

 

McGinn I 115
Magical theories rather play a subliminal role than an official role: approaches to Wittgenstein: A philosophical contemplation (The brown book, 263 ff): one could almost imagine that the naming was performed by a strange sacramental act, and that this is a magical relationship between the name and the thing. Cf. >Magical thinking.
It is a common theme in Wittgenstein, that meaning triggers strange and occult ideas,
The Tractatus is rather a place for magic ideas, of which Wittgenstein moves away later.
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Wittgenstein III 133
Philosophy/Wittgenstein: thesis: the most important of philosophy is to distinguish the meaningful and logically sayable from the unspeakable. What can be said is unimportant to human existence. The mystical is not what the world is, but that it is!
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VII 21
Pointing/Saying/Tractatus/Tetens: Wittgenstein refuses to say that there is nothing that cannot be meaningfully described. >Description, >Senseless.
Solution/Tractatus: there is "inexpressible" that "shows itself". This is the "mystical" (> Tractatus 6.522). Cf. >Circular reasoning.
VII 25
Whole/World/Tractatus/Tetens: the expression "the whole reality" means the world "within the limits of my language". This can be logically displayed in a meaningful way. The rest is not nothing, but can only be shown.
Whole/Tractatus: "the feeling of the world as a limited whole is the mystical" (6.45). >Wholes.
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VI 106
Golden Bough/Frazer/Wittgenstein/SchulteVsFrazer: the book suffers from the weakness of presenting ritual and magical customs as if they were based on pseudo-scientific theories.