Throwing Away the Ladder

Cora Diamond--Throwing Away the Ladder: How to Read the Tractatus

notes : (p.181-2)

1. to throw the ladder away is, among other things, to throw away in the end the attempt to take seriously the language of 'features of reality'.

2. To speak of features of reality in connection with what shows itself in language is to use a very add kind of figurative language. That goes also for "what shows itself."