The Limits of Thought: Wittgenstein, Language, and the Collapse of Certainty

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

For those drawn to paradox, silence, and the deep fissures beneath thought itself.

What are the limits of what we can think—and say? This episode is not a summary of answers, but a descent into disorientation. Drawing on the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, it explores how philosophy can dissolve meaning rather than clarify it. Wittgenstein didn’t build a system. He built a mirror—a trap that reveals how much of our reality is held together by words we cannot fully trust.

From the crystalline logic of the Tractatus to the fracturing revelations of Philosophical Investigations, we journey through Wittgenstein’s two revolutions. Listeners are not simply told his ideas—they are drawn into them, pushed to feel the collapse of fixed meaning and the eerie silence beyond language.

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