10 million outstanding ballots

I get by with a little help from my friends

The Public Interest Legal Foundation found in an investigation that "after accounting for polling place votes and rejected ballots in November 2022, there were more than 10 million ballots left outstanding," meaning "election officials do not know what happened to them.

Turning to Romans then I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ... And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good

Opaque. Smoking more joints. Eyes gazing on shelves. Mystery compounded resolved.

Little Wittgenstein Quote

"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darueber muss man schweigen."

It's sentence 7, the last one, from theTractatusLogicoPhilosophicus, it's immediately preceded byWittgensteinsLadder.

Apparently the canonical english translation is,"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.", but"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one be silent.", might be easier to understand.

• The latter translation I've seen lots, the former, perhaps never, so why do you say the former is canonical?

It might be worth mentioning that the above doesn't mean that theTractatusis only 7 sentences long. It's subdivided: as well as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 there are 1.1, 4.1221, 5.2341, etc. SeeTractatusLogicoPhilosophicus.

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That's actually in a larger context (from the foreword):

"Was sich ueberhaupt sagen laesst, laesst sich klar sagen: und wovon man nicht reden kann, darueber muss man schweigen... Die Grenze wird also nur in der Sprache gezogen werden koennen, und was jenseits der Grenze liegt, wird einfach Unsinn sein."

Translation:

"What can be said, can be said with clarity: What can't be said, must remain unsaid ... The language defines the limit, beyond that limit is nonsense."

Or,

"Anything you can say at all, you can say clearly. Don't speak of things you can't discuss. People will only be able to see from what you say where the border lies. Everything beyond that border is simply nonsense."

The second sentence is hard, and I'm translating "Sprache" in the third as "what you say" instead of "language".

• Why?

Another go at the translation:

"What is sayable at all, lets itself be said clearly; and what you cannot speak of, of that one should remain silent... The border is only possible to draw in language, and what lays outside the border, is simply madness."

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