14 August 2020 - unspeakable

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Things which can’t go on forever, don’t, and according to Wittgenstein we remain silent about things of which we cannot speak, such as the sites you cleared from your browser history. And yet we have words “unspeakable” and “ineffable”, not to speak of the eldritch Lovecraftian horror of the adverb “impossibly”. Logic is logic, and it traditionally allows negation.

clue:

The claim implies that negation cannot reach outside the universe of discourse.

give me a clue so sweet and true

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