COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Logical Truth, Noumenon
10 Feb 2020
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Real truths come from our subject, and subjects exist outside of experience. Although we know a priori that we have a subject it is a logical truth that without a subject there could not be any experience that subject cannot be encountered in experience. It is not an object (nb 80: 7. 8. 16) that could stand in a possessive relation to its experiences. Therefore the subject must be identified with its experiences: i am my world (tlp 5. 63). Alternatively, the subject could be regarded as an outer boundary of the world (tlp 5. 632). Wittgenstein"s positive characterization of the metaphysical subject" vacillates between these two metaphors for what is strictly speaking unsayable. What matters, however, is the negative point that the subject does not belong to the world (tlp 5. 632). First, it appears that the real subject of experience cannot be one"s physical body or a part of it (al 23).
