Tractatus Pangrammaticus

After having been abandoned by his blogging interlocutors in the panicky days leading up to and following Bush's second non-election, Thomas Basbøll takes up the project of (re)writing the shadow-Tractatus on his blog. Please note that I am exhibiting significant restraint by not adding several unseemly exclamation marks to the end of that last sentence.

Thomas' writing, in my opinion, admirably exemplifies Wittgenstein's double ethic of maximizing both clarity and humility of presentation (indeed, how could one be both clear and dramatic?). The implications of the transformations through which he carries Wittgenstein's remarks extend far, far beyond the range of what one would expect from such a "simple" procedure.