The professor's ladder
There is this your don of the drug cartel
Your story has him walk into the horizon.
Surely we cant have him kicking around.
He has used the Prof's ladder but kick it
As soon as we climb up it, says our prof.We want our ladders safely on to the wall
Just in case, as we get dizzy halfway down.
Our ladders are for evening birds to perch
For their idle prattle, after day's business. "My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them—as steps—to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)" (6.54)
––Ludwig Wittgenstein, TractatusThe goal of the Tractatus, as Wittgenstein claims in his preface, is "to draw a limit … to the expression of thoughts."(http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/tractatus/quotes.html#explanation5)
Your story has him walk into the horizon.
Surely we cant have him kicking around.
He has used the Prof's ladder but kick it
As soon as we climb up it, says our prof.We want our ladders safely on to the wall
Just in case, as we get dizzy halfway down.
Our ladders are for evening birds to perch
For their idle prattle, after day's business. "My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them—as steps—to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)" (6.54)
––Ludwig Wittgenstein, TractatusThe goal of the Tractatus, as Wittgenstein claims in his preface, is "to draw a limit … to the expression of thoughts."(http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/tractatus/quotes.html#explanation5)
