SUBJETIVIDADE EMPÍRICA E TRANSCENDENTAL NO TRACTATUS DE WITTGENSTEIN

Abstract

The name-object relation in the Tractatus requires the activity of a will. A subject must "choose" which object to associate with a given name. This choice cannot be described--it cannot be a fact within the world. By the same token, the subject cannot be an object, or a state of affairs. It must stay outside of the world, in its logical limits. It is connected to the "what", not to the "how"--to the objects, not to the facts. That is why the logical subject is the bearer of the "ethical element", and contemplates the world sub specie aeterni