The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Logic fills the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
Thus we cannot say in logic: There is this in the world, and that, but not that other thing.
For that would suggest that we could exclude various possibilities, and this cannot be the case because then logic would have to get outside the limits of the world—in order to view these limits from the other side too.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus
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