拙林：道可道，非常道

不过中国人好像有了这六个字就不爱再深究了。 西方人却把这个学问做得无穷大。  "A limit to thought vs. a limit to the expression of thought", "thinkable vs. unthinkable", "sayable vs. unsayable", "language and its limit"......巴拉巴拉。

有一群人甚至说世上之事，应该分为TRUE，FALSE，&BS。      

这群人还有个响亮的名字，叫logical positivists。   他们认为being true or false first need to meaningful.  But much of we say and hear is just BS!  哈哈哈，那帮人还只生活在二战前，如果到今天，上了网络，不知这些学者会怎么说！ 

摘录：

If you understand how language works, then you will see that language is

great for describing facts. It is useful. There is no doubt about that. But the

deepest elements of human experience cannot be expressed in language

at all.

Finally, there is something destructive about trying to say what cannot be

said. It is destructive to try to say the unsayable.

The best recourse is—silence.

Here is how Wittgenstein summarized the situation in a letter to a friend:

 And this is how it is: if only you do not try to utter what is unutterable

then nothing gets lost. But the unutterable will be—unutterably—contained

in what has been uttered! (Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein, p. 7)

The unsayable exists. It is contained in the sayable. It is more important

than the sayable. But you should not try to say it.